Census and monitoring based on individually identifiable vocalizations: The role of neural networks

Animal Conservation

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 103-111

  Terry, Andrew M R ^a   McGregor, Peter K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CENSUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MONITORING; VOCALIZATION;

CREX CREX;

EID: 3042696058     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943002002147     Document Type: Article

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