Unmanned aerial vehicle for remote sensing applications - A review

Remote Sensing

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2019, Pages

  Yao, Huang ^a,b   Qin, Rongjun ^b   Chen, Xiaoyu ^b  

^a CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Remote sensing applications; UAVs

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; ANTENNAS; DATA HANDLING; DATA REDUCTION; FORESTRY; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS; DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; GROUND SAMPLING DISTANCES; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 85068188749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs11121443     Document Type: Review

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