CoordinateCleaner v2.0-13 – Automated Cleaning of Occurrence Records from Biological Collections

CoordinateCleaner v2.0-13

:: DESCRIPTION

Overly imprecise or erroneous geo-references are a major issues when using species distribution data from large databases compiled from various sources, such as public data aggregators (e.g. GBIF).

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CoordinateCleaner automatically cleans databases from records with potentially erroneous coordinates. It accounts for errors most commonly found in biological collections, for instance invalid coordinates, coordinates in the sea, coordinates assigned to country centroids, capitals or biodiversity institutions.

::DEVELOPER

Antonelli Lab

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/a

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux /  MacOsX
  • R

:: DOWNLOAD

CoordinateCleaner

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Zizka A, Silvestro D, Andermann T, Azevedo J, Duarte Ritter C, Edler D, Farooq H, Herdean A, Ariza M, Scharn R, Svanteson S, Wengtrom N, Zizka V & Antonelli A
CoordinateCleaner: standardized cleaning of occurrence records from biological collection databases.(in press)
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 0:0-0, doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13152,

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