Assessment of Antarctic moss health from multi-sensor UAS imagery with random forest modelling

• Published in: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
• Main Authors: Turner, D, Lucieer, A, Malenovsky, Z, King, D, Robinson, SA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier Science Bv 2018
• Subjects: UAV; UAS; random forest models; Antarctica; moss; multispectral; visible; thermal; digital surface model; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Windmill Islands; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/45031/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2018.01.004

Moss beds are one of very few terrestrial vegetation types that can be found on the Antarctic continent and as such mapping their extent and monitoring their health is important to environmental managers. Across Antarctica, moss beds are experiencing changes in health as their environment changes. A...