Improvement of plankton biovolume estimates derived from image-based automatic sampling devices: Application to FlowCAM

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 454-469

  Álvarez, Eva ^a   López Urrutia, Ángel ^a   Nogueira, Enrique ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

biomass; biovolume; FlowCAM; machine learning; size spectra; Support Vector Machine (SVM)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; DIATOM; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMAGE; MICROALGA; MORPHOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SAMPLING;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84860452440     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: 14643774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbs017     Document Type: Article

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