Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools: An integrated framework for ecological geoprocessing with ArcGIS, Python, R, MATLAB, and C++

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1197-1207

  Roberts, Jason J ^a   Best, Benjamin D ^a   Dunn, Daniel C ^a   Treml, Eric A ^b   Halpin, Patrick N ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

GIS; Habitat modeling; Informatics; Interoperability; Marine ecology; Oceanography; Software integration; Spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

GIS; HABITAT MODELING; INFORMATICS; MARINE ECOLOGY; SOFTWARE INTEGRATION; SPATIAL ECOLOGY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES); ECOSYSTEMS; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTEROPERABILITY; INVESTMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; REMOTE SENSING; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER; DOLPHIN; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GIS; GPS; HABITAT TYPE; INNOVATION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

STENELLA FRONTALIS;

EID: 77957755426     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.03.029     Document Type: Article

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