Spatial modeling of environmental vulnerability of marine finfish aquaculture using GIS-based neuro-fuzzy techniques

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1786-1799

  Navas, Juan Moreno ^a   Telfer, Trevor C ^a   Ross, Lindsay G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geographic Information Systems; Marine cage aquaculture; Marine environmental vulnerability; Neuro fuzzy techniques

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; COASTAL AQUACULTURE; COASTAL REGIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL VULNERABILITY; FUZZY TECHNIQUES; GEOSPATIAL MODEL; GIS MODELING; INPUT PARAMETER; KAPPA COEFFICIENT; MARINE CAGE AQUACULTURE; MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL VULNERABILITY; NEURO-FUZZY MODELING; NEURO-FUZZY TECHNIQUES; NITROGEN CONCENTRATIONS; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; POLICY DECISIONS; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; SPATIAL MODELING; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; AQUACULTURE; COASTAL ZONES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MARINE POLLUTION; MODELS; SITE SELECTION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COASTAL WATER; EXPERT SYSTEM; FISH CULTURE; FISHERY POLICY; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE POLLUTION; NITROGEN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ACCURACY; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FUZZY SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HYDRODYNAMICS; KAPPA STATISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NITROGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; POLLUTION MONITORING; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SALMON; SCORING SYSTEM; SEDIMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER POLLUTANT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHERIES; FUZZY LOGIC; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IRELAND; MARINE BIOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN;

EID: 79960414657     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.05.019     Document Type: Article

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