Issues in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) data collection of complex forest environments

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2018, Pages

  Fraser, Benjamin T ^a   Congalton, Russell G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drone; Flight planning; Photogrammetry; Structure from motion (SfM); Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS); Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA HANDLING; DRONES; FIXED WINGS; FORESTRY; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AERIAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; FLIGHT PLANNING; GROUND SAMPLING DISTANCES; HIGH RESOLUTION PROCESSING; KEY QUALITY INDICATORS; PROCESSING PARAMETERS; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 85048990116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10060908     Document Type: Article

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