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TRANSECT and IDENTIFY:
Research Technology Tools for Biodiversity
We are now in the development and initial beta-testing phase of our two new database-driven analytical tools, TRANSECT and IDENTIFY. TRANSECT is a comprehensive field-methodology that includes tools to develop a biological inventorying and monitoring project from beginning, all centered around a database-driven analysis. The database will allow users to automatically generate diversity statistics based on specified temporal and spatial criteria.
IDENTIFY uses standard diagnostic traits for reptiles and amphibians to develop a database of known specimens. This database of known individual animals is then used to identify unknown animals. Once a database has been developed, one may simply plug in morphological characters from an unidentified specimen, such as shape of toe pads or scale row counts, and a best match is automatically produced.
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The basic databases and a complete manual have been produced, and we are now working on the automation process. We expect to have full beta versions for public release in 2010.
Here are some screen shots from TRANSECT and IDENTIFY:
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