Fish age classification based on length, weight, sex and otolith morphological features

Fisheries Research

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 270-274

  Bermejo, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automated fish age classification; Otoliths; Statistical learning; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847023519     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2006.12.007     Document Type: Article

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