Inexpensive Aerial Photogrammetry for Studies of Whales and Large Marine Animals

Inexpensive Aerial Photogrammetry for Studies of Whales and Large Marine Animals

We describe a simple system enabling accurate measurement of swimming marine mammals and other large vertebrates from low-altitude single-frame photogrammetry via inexpensive modifications to a “prosumer” unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with gimballed micro4/3 camera and 25 mm lens. Image sca...

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Main Authors: Stephen M. Dawson, M. Hamish Bowman, Eva Leunissen, Pascal Sirguey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
aerial
photogrammetry
UAV
LIDAR
whale
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2017.00366/full

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