Using lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor tropical forest recovery

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Biological Conservation

• Publication date

  2015-06-01

• Fields of study

  Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.BIOCON.2015.03.031
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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