http://polarbears.ucf.edu/wiki/ 2008-11-17T13:58:52-05:00 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt DokuWiki 2008-09-25T00:30:29-05:00 2008-09-25T00:30:29-05:00 http://polarbears.ucf.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=approving_an_encounter&rev=1222317029&do=diff

The following steps describe how to approve or reject a newly submitted encounter for inclusion in the ECOCEAN Library. Sometimes encounters are added with incomplete or inaccurate information. It is best to leave these encounters as “Unapproved” until the submitter has been contacted and the information has been corrected.

2008-09-25T00:32:32-05:00 2008-09-25T00:32:32-05:00 http://polarbears.ucf.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=beargrid&rev=1222317152&do=diff

The sharkGrid allows connected computers to participate in spot pattern recognition scans run from the ECOCEAN Library. When you start a pattern matching scan for an encounter in the ECOCEAN Library, you are actually creating a scanTask made up of individual comparisons called scanWorkItems. The scanWorkItems of a scanTask are executed in efficient, parallel groups that are distributed across the grid of computers. The results are reassembled once all comparisons are complete. Each encounter can…

2008-09-29T03:04:36-05:00 2008-09-29T03:04:36-05:00 http://polarbears.ucf.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=ecocean_library_access_policy&rev=1222671876&do=diff

This policy defines who may be given access to the Polar Bear Library and how access may be requested. Background TBD Requesting access TBD Request review TBD

2008-08-11T23:17:39-05:00 2008-08-11T23:17:39-05:00 http://polarbears.ucf.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=faqs&rev=1218511059&do=diff

1. Why do spots sometimes appear mismapped in the results of a scanTask? Two things can happen when you see mismapped spots in a scan result. a. The match results are stored in an XML file. However, the images they pull to map the matched spot pairs to are the latest extraction images. Therefore, when someone remapped the spots, your scan results did not change, but they're now mapped to the new extraction image that was uploaded. The best way to resolve this is:

2008-10-30T15:04:35-05:00 2008-10-30T15:04:35-05:00 http://polarbears.ucf.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=field_manual_overview_and_purpose&rev=1225393475&do=diff

Welcome to the UCF Polar Bear Photo-identification Library User Community! Overview of the Polar Bear Library TBD Purpose of this Field Station Manual The purpose of this field manual is to document the standard operating procedures for the library that are required to ensure proper and consistent data collection, processing, and analysis. The intended audience for this document includes:

2008-10-01T11:04:10-05:00 2008-10-01T11:04:10-05:00 http://polarbears.ucf.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=home&rev=1222873450&do=diff

This Wiki contains useful documentation for the UCF Polar Bear Photo-identification Library. Library User Documentation The following documentation provides assistance to library users with login access. Field Manual 1. Overview 2. Managing encounters and bears 3. Approving or rejecting an encounter 4. Extracting whisker patterns 5. Comparing whisker patterns with bearGrid 6. Interpreting pattern match results 7. Matching bears 8. Searching through the Library 9. FAQs

2008-09-25T00:19:35-05:00 2008-09-25T00:19:35-05:00 http://polarbears.ucf.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=how_to_join_beargrid&rev=1222316375&do=diff

Welcome to the bearGrid! The bearGrid allows you to donate spare cycles of your computer to polar bear research. Specifically, the processing power of your computer can be “borrowed” for resource intensive tasks, such pattern recognition or data mining. bearGrid uses “global volunteer computing” to distribute intensive tasks between multiple computers to allow them to complete much more quickly.

2008-06-28T18:35:18-05:00 2008-06-28T18:35:18-05:00 http://polarbears.ucf.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=identifying_sharks&rev=1214692518&do=diff

This topic describes how to allocate matched and unmatched encounters as sharks in the ECOCEAN Library. Creating a New Shark If an approved encounter has a properly-oriented, left-side spot pattern extracted and added to the database, and if the spot pattern scan and visual inspection of the encounter photos do not produce a match to an existing shark, the encounter can be allocated as a new shark. This allocation is a first “mark” of the animal. Future sightings are considered “recaptures”.…

2008-10-01T11:03:12-05:00 2008-10-01T11:03:12-05:00 http://polarbears.ucf.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=known_issues&rev=1222873392&do=diff

The following are known issues with library performance: * We need a robots.txt file for search engine crawlers * The administrative function adding a location code for a defined string does not return a confirmation page upon successful addition of the loc. code

2008-09-24T11:37:02-05:00 2008-09-24T11:37:02-05:00 http://polarbears.ucf.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=library_sidebar&rev=1222270622&do=diff

* Wiki Home * PhotoID Library

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The following are the location codes used for standardized location identification in the the library. TBD

2008-09-24T12:03:33-05:00 2008-09-24T12:03:33-05:00 http://polarbears.ucf.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=photo_keywords&rev=1222272213&do=diff

The following images provide examples of the keywords used to tag polar bear photos in the library. Example TBD

2008-09-25T00:32:32-05:00 2008-09-25T00:32:32-05:00 http://polarbears.ucf.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=processing_a_new_encounter&rev=1222317152&do=diff

The ECOCEAN Library is a mark-recapture framework for storing and analyzing whale shark data. Among its many features, it supports spot pattern searches to help identify new and previously sighted individual whale sharks using photographs and frame grabs from video.

2008-07-04T00:04:04-05:00 2008-07-04T00:04:04-05:00 http://polarbears.ucf.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=scan_results&rev=1215144244&do=diff

You can access the results of a pattern matching scan (a.k.a. scanTask) by: * Clicking View for a completed scanTask in the sharkGrid Administration page * Clicking Groth: Left/Right-side scan results or I3S: Left-side scan results from the related encounter page

2008-09-09T20:43:41-05:00 2008-09-09T20:43:41-05:00 http://polarbears.ucf.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=searching&rev=1221007421&do=diff

The ECOCEAN Library offers the following search capabilities: Encounter Search TBD Sightings Calendar TBD Shark Search TBD Google Search TBD Photo Keyword Search TBD Thumbnail Search TBD Third-party Search Mechanisms TBD Next: FAQs Previous: Matching sharks

2008-09-24T12:48:45-05:00 2008-09-24T12:48:45-05:00 http://polarbears.ucf.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=tapirlink&rev=1222274925&do=diff

Certain data from the UCF Polar Bear Library are shared with other biology and ecology portals, such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. This sharing occurs at regular intervals via an installed TapirLink provider. Information shared fits the basic DarwinCore and Geospatial Extension specifications. The specifications map cleanly to the base “encounter” data structure displayed in the library.

2008-09-24T12:02:19-05:00 2008-09-24T12:02:19-05:00 http://polarbears.ucf.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=user_agreement&rev=1222272139&do=diff

The following policy applies only to individuals with login access to the UCF Polar Bear Photo-identification Library. UCF Polar Bear Photo-identification Library Usage Agreement TBD

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TBD