Assessment of Antarctic moss health from multi-sensor UAS imagery with Random Forest Modelling

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 68, Issue , 2018, Pages 168-179

  Turner, Darren ^a   Lucieer, Arko ^a   Malenovský, Zbyněk ^a,b,c   King, Diana ^b   Robinson, Sharon A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Digital Surface Model; Moss; Multispectral; Random Forest Models; Thermal; UAS; UAV; Visible

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; INFRARED IMAGERY; MOSS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; WINDMILL ISLANDS;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 85048278466     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2018.01.004     Document Type: Article

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