Automated mapping of Portulacaria afra canopies for restoration monitoring with convolutional neural networks and heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicle imagery

Ecosystem restoration and reforestation often operate at large scales, whereas monitoring practices are usually limited to spatially restricted field measurements that are (i) time- and labour-intensive, and (ii) unable to accurately quantify restoration success over hundreds to thousands of hectare...

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Main Authors: Nicholas C. Galuszynski, Robbert Duker, Alastair J. Potts, Teja Kattenborn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2022-10-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/14219.pdf