Название: Machine Learning for Ecology and Sustainable Natural Resource Management
Автор: Grant Humphries, Dawn R. Magness
Издательство: Springer
ISBN: 3319969765
Год: 2018
Страниц: 332
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 15.56 MB
Ecologists and natural resource managers are charged with making complex management decisions in the face of a rapidly changing environment resulting from climate change, energy development, urban sprawl, invasive species and globalization. Advances in Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, digitization, online data availability, historic legacy datasets, remote sensors and the ability to collect data on animal movements via satellite and GPS have given rise to large, highly complex datasets.
These datasets could be utilized for making critical management decisions, but are often “messy” and difficult to interpret. Basic artificial intelligence algorithms (i.e., machine learning) are powerful tools that are shaping the world and must be taken advantage of in the life sciences.