UAV Photogrammetry of Forests as a Vulnerable Process. A Sensitivity Analysis for a Structure from Motion RGB-Image Pipeline

Structural analysis of forests by UAV is currently growing in popularity. Given the reduction in platform costs, and the number of algorithms available to analyze data output, the number of applications has grown rapidly. Forest structures are not only linked to economic value in forestry, but also...

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Published in:	Remote Sensing
Main Authors:	Julian Frey, Kyle Kovach, Simon Stemmler, Barbara Koch
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2018-06-01
Subjects:	UAV photogrammetry SfM image aggregation forest sensitivity analyses reconstruction quality
Online Access:	http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/6/912

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