Manta Matcher: Automated photographic identification of manta rays using keypoint features

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1902-1914

  Town, Christopher ^a   Marshall, Andrea ^b   Sethasathien, Nutthaporn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MARINE MEGAFAUNA FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer aided pattern recognition; Conservation biology; Marine and fisheries management; Photographic identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886294712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.587     Document Type: Article

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