Small unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs, drones) in plant ecology

Applications in Plant Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Cruzan, Mitchell B ^a   Weinstein, Ben G ^b   Grasty, Monica R ^a   Kohrn, Brendan F ^a   Hendrickson, Elizabeth C ^a   Arredondo, Tina M ^a   Thompson, Pamela G ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aerial drone (micro UAV, UAS); aerial survey; digital elevation model (DEM); digital surface model (DSM); orthomosaic; vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 85136189173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/APPS.1600041     Document Type: Article

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