Classification trees for species identification of fish-school echotraces

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1073-1080

  Fernandes, Paul G ^a  

^a MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Classification trees; Fish; Ground truth; Herring; Mackerel; Multifrequency; Species identification

Indexed keywords

CLUPEIDAE;

EID: 73649085887     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsp060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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