Abstract
Satellite tracking technologies enable scientists to collect data of animal migrations and species habitats on a large scale. Modeling distributions of wild animals is of considerable use. It helps researchers to understand important ecological phenomena such as the spread of bird flu and climate changes. Species distribution modeling has been studied for a long time, however, most existing work provide solutions in a point-wise manner, ignoring the relevance between adjacent habitats, which may reflect an important dependency between nearby places. In this paper, we take the relevance into consideration, and then propose a novel method to model species habitats and predict possible distribution of wild animals by applying the Spatial Bagging of Multiple Conditional Random Fields(SBMCRFs) on remote-sensing data. To access the usability of our method, several experiments are implemented on a real world dataset of migratory birds from Qinghai Lake Reserve. The experiment results show that SBMCRFs outperforms the baselines significantly, and the relevance between nearby places is demonstrated to be an important factor in species distribution modeling.
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This work is partly supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant No. 41371386 and 91224006.
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Guo, D., Zhou, Y., Zhu, Y., Li, J. (2016). Species Distribution Modeling via Spatial Bagging of Multiple Conditional Random Fields. In: Navathe, S., Wu, W., Shekhar, S., Du, X., Wang, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Database Systems for Advanced Applications. DASFAA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9643. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32049-6_27
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