Weed mapping with UAS imagery and a bag of visualwords based image classifier

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2018, Pages

  Pflanz, Michael ^a   Nordmeyer, Henning ^a   Schirrmann, Michael ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND BIOECONOMY ATB   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bag of visual words; Low altitude UAS flights; Object based image classification; Weed mapping

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; MAPPING; SITE SELECTION; TRAINING AIRCRAFT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WEED CONTROL;

BAG-OF-VISUAL WORDS; IMAGE CLASSIFIERS; LOW ALTITUDES; LOW-ALTITUDE FLIGHT; OBJECT-BASED IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; SMALL UNMANNED AIRCRAFTS; VISUAL DICTIONARIES; WEED MAPPINGS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 85055450732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10101530     Document Type: Article

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