A research tool for long-term and continuous analysis of fish assemblage in coral-reefs using underwater camera footage

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 23, Issue , 2014, Pages 83-97

  Boom, Bastiaan J ^a   He, Jiyin ^c   Palazzo, Simone ^b   Huang, Phoenix X ^a   Beyan, Cigdem ^a   Chou, Hsiu Mei ^d   Lin, Fang Pang ^d   Spampinato, Concetto ^b   Fisher, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c CWI   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fish abundance; Fish species recognition; High performance computing; Long term monitoring; Video analysis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CORAL REEF; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; FISH; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; UNDERWATER CAMERA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84905120372     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2013.10.006     Document Type: Article

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