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Species distribution modeling based on the automated identification of citizen observations
Christophe Botella1,2,3,4, Alexis Joly1, Pierre Bonnet3,5
1Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA) Sophia-Antipolis, ZENITH team Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics-Joint Research Unit 5506-CC 477, 161 rue Ada, 34095 Montpellier CEDEX 5 France.
Premise Of The Study:
A species distribution model computed with automatically identified plant observations was developed and evaluated to contribute to future ecological studies.
Methods:
We used deep learning techniques to automatically identify opportunistic plant observations made by citizens through a popular mobile application. We compared species distribution modeling of invasive alien plants based on these data to inventories made by experts.
Results:
The trained models have a reasonable predictive effectiveness for some species, but they are biased by the massive presence of cultivated specimens.
Discussion:
The method proposed here allows for fine-grained and regular monitoring of some species of interest based on opportunistic observations. More in-depth investigation of the typology of the observations and the sampling bias should help improve the approach in the future.
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