Using multi-layer perceptrons to predict the presence of jellyfish of the genus physalia at New Zealand beaches

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1170-1175

  Pontin, David R ^a   Watts, Michael J ^b   Worner, S P ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; FORECASTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

BIOLOGICAL VARIABLES; GLOBAL FISHERIES; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANOGRAPHIC DATUMS; POTENTIAL HARMS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 56349087070     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2008.4633947     Document Type: Conference Paper

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