Modeling sage grouse: Progressive computational methods for linking a complex set of local, digital biodiversity and habitat data towards global conservation statements and decision-making systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3482, Issue III, 2005, Pages 152-161

  Onyeahialam, Anthonia ^a   Huettmann, Falk ^b   Bertazzon, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MARKOV PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIGITAL DATASETS; MULTIVARIATE ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINES (MARS); PROGRESSIVE COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 24944459038     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11424857_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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