Volunteered drone imagery: Challenges and constraints to the development of an open shared image repository

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2017-January, Issue , 2017, Pages 1995-2004

  Johnson, Peter ^a   Ricker, Britta ^b   Harrison, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DATA HANDLING; DRONES;

AERIAL IMAGERY; DISASTER RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; IMAGE REPOSITORY; SOFTWARE PLATFORMS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TYPE OF SERVICES; USER ENGAGEMENT;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 85042720066     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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