Editorial - Special issue on multimedia in ecology
نویسندگان
چکیده
The recent advances in digital cameras and sensors, as well as in network bandwidth and information storage capacities, have revolutionized our ability to capture multimedia data (sounds, images, videos, etc.) for environmental monitoring and are also greatly improving our ability to effectively manage natural resources. Sensors are used increasingly in a range of monitoring or exploratory applications, in particular for biological surveys: for instance, the Xeno-canto project has collected thousands of bird sounds over the world, while as part of the EcoGrid project several Terabytes of data (videos, images and audio recordings) of monitoring forest animals in Taiwan were collected. The proliferation of ecological multimedia data has opened new frontiers in ecology, thus making it an interdisciplinary, collaborative and data-intensive science and shifting from passive analysis performed by expert ecologists to proactively providing analytical information on the environment. Despite these advances in data collection technologies, the analysis of the acquired multimedia data usually requires very time-consuming and expensive input by human observers. This analytical “bottleneck” greatly restricts the use of these otherwise powerful technologies and demands for efficient organi-
منابع مشابه
Guest Editorial: Impact of Integrated Intelligent Information and Analytical Systems on Society
The Special Issue of the Journal of Information Technology Management (JITM) is publishing very selective papers on information management, technology in higher education, integrated systems, enterprise management, cultural thoughts, strategic contributions, management information systems, and cloud computing. We received numerous papers for this special issue but after an extensive pe...
متن کاملEcological Monitoring, Assessment, and Management in Freshwater Systems
Ecological monitoring and assessment is fundamental for effective management of ecosystems. As an introduction to this Special Issue, this editorial provides an overview of “Ecological Monitoring, Assessment, and Management in Freshwater Systems”. This issue contains a review article on monitoring surface waters, and research papers on data management, biological assessment of aquatic ecosystem...
متن کاملEditorial for Special Issue of Microbiota
Editorial for Special Issue of Microbiota Bagher Larijani Professor, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید
ثبت ناماگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید
ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Ecological Informatics
دوره 23 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014