Geolocation analysis using Maxent and plant sample data

2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security, HST 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Christou, C T ^a   Jacyna, G M ^a   Goodman, F J ^a   Deanto, D G ^a   Masters, D ^b  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental variables; forensics geolocation; marginal and joint probability distributions; maximum entropy; Neotropics; plant occurrences; pollen analytes; statistical metrics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENTROPY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHODS; NATIONAL SECURITY; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROBABILITY; SECURITY SYSTEMS; TRACKING (POSITION);

ANALYTES; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; GEOLOCATIONS; JOINT PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; NEOTROPICS; PLANT OCCURRENCES; STATISTICAL METRICS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84955473489     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/THS.2015.7225273     Document Type: Conference Paper

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