As a visitor, you have free access to a subset of the images that have been already identified by users.
Images can be filtered according to several criteria: taxonomy, geographic location, depth, date and time of sampling, and imaging instrument.
You can contribute to the richness of this image database and/or to the collaborative taxonomic annotation effort.Images are organised in projects which should be consistent in terms of sampling and imaging techniques. We provide tools to support the quick annotation of large image datasets, such as supervised machine learning prediction and visual similarity search.
A collection is a set of similar projects that can be explored together (legs of a cruise, years of a time series, etc.) or a single project that constitutes a full dataset.
After adding metadata and choosing a license, the data is ready to be exported and published in DarwinCore archive format, OBIS or GBIF.
The EcoPart application is designed to manage data from Underwater Vision Profiler (UVP) instruments.
It allows:
- Importing particle data and linking them with CTD data and zooplankton images annotated in Ecotaxa.
- Computing size spectra from particle data.
- Downloading particle spectra, CTD data, and zooplankton records based on user permissions.
EcoTaxa is not responsible for the safekeeping of the images and data it stores. Even if the application managers make their best to secure them. We advise you to perform your own backups.
People annotating images in EcoTaxa cannot claim for any retribution but they can download and use the results of their work. The application can be freely downloaded and installed for scientific usage.
If you use EcoTaxa in your work, we would appreciate that you cite it as: Picheral M, Colin S, Irisson J-O. EcoTaxa, a tool for the taxonomic classification of images. http://ecotaxa.obs-vlfr.fr
For any problem please contact piqv@imev-mer.fr.
EcoTaxa has been developped thanks to the support of many organisations and projects.