Issue Date
1985-09-01Keywords
land resourcesvideo recorders
assessment
image analysis
remote sensing
Texas
range management
rangelands
ecology
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Everitt, J. H., & Nixon, P. R. (1985). Video imagery: A new remote sensing tool for range management. Journal of Range Management, 38(5), 421-424.Publisher
Society for Range ManagementJournal
Journal of Range ManagementDOI
10.2307/3899713Additional Links
https://rangelands.org/Abstract
A multi-video system that provides immediately useful narrowband black-and-white imagery within the visible to near-infrared light (0.40- to 1.10-micrometer waveband) region of the electromagnetic spectrum was evaluated as a remote sensing tool to assess several ecological rangeland ground conditions in southern Texas. The system provided imagery to detect many variables including: the presence of weeds, heavy grazing, fertilized grassland, burned areas, and gopher and ant mounds. Certain narrowband filters provided better discrimination among vegetation than others. For example, a red narrowband filter provided the best imagery to distinguish between fertilized and nonfertilized bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.]. These results demonstrated that narrowband multi-video imagery could assist in assessing some ecological ground conditions of rangelands.Type
textArticle
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enISSN
0022-409Xae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.2307/3899713