2013
Conference article  Open Access

Automatic Procedures to Assist in Manual Review of Marine Species Distribution Maps

Coro G., Pagano P., Ellenbroek A.

Ecologial Niche Modeling - Feed forward neural networks - AquaMaps - Maps review 

Ecological Niche Modeling (ENM) is a branch of biology that uses algorithms to predict the distribution of species in a geographic area on the basis of a numerical representation of their preferred habitat and environment. Algorithmic maps can be produced for suitable or native habitats and require a review by human experts. During the review operation biologists use their knowledge about a species to modify the maps. They usually take algorithmic maps as starting point in the review. In this paper we provide a methodology for biologists to use the automatic maps as references also during and after the review process. Our approach is based on a comparison between the reviewed map and two systems: an expert system and a Feed Forward Neural Network. Furthermore we suggest an evaluation procedure of the quality of the environmental features used as training set, for assessing the models reliability.

Source: ICANNGA'13 - International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms, pp. 346–355, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 4-6 2013


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@inproceedings{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:277598,
	title = {Automatic Procedures to Assist in Manual Review of Marine Species Distribution Maps},
	author = {Coro G. and Pagano P. and Ellenbroek A.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-37213-1_36},
	booktitle = {ICANNGA'13 - International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms, pp. 346–355, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 4-6 2013},
	year = {2013}
}

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