Seagrass detection in the mediterranean: A supervised learning approach

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 48, Issue , 2018, Pages 158-170

  Effrosynidis, Dimitrios ^a   Arampatzis, Avi ^a   Sylaios, Georgios ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Data mining; Dataset integration and fusion; Machine learning; Mediterranean Sea; Seagrass classification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA MINING; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHM; NUMERICAL METHOD; SALINITY; SEAGRASS; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

CYMODOCEA; HALOPHILA; POSIDONIA; RUPPIA;

EID: 85053749789     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.09.004     Document Type: Article

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