Digital Automated Identification System
Digital Automated Identification SYstem (DAISY) is an automated species identification system optimised for the rapid screening of invertebrates (e.g. insects) by non-experts (e.g. parataxonomists).
It was developed by Dr. Mark O'Neill during the early 1990's. Development was supported by funding from the Darwin Initiative in 1997[1] and BBSRC.[2] The intellectual property rights were acquired by O'Neill's company; Tumbling Dice Ltd, in February 2000[3] at the end of the grant funded Darwin Project.
DAISY has been used in several research projects by O'Neill[4] and others, and featured in popular science TV and magazine articles.
References
- ^ "Automating Insect Identification for Inventorying Costa Rican Biodiversity". Darwin Initiative. Defra. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
- ^ "DAISY Overview" (PDF). Tumbling Dice. 2007. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- ^ "Overview of the DAISY Project". Tumbling Dice. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- ^ Watson, Anna T.; O'Neill, Mark A.; Kitching, Ian J. (2003). "A qualitative study investigating automated identification of living macrolepidoptera using the Digital Automated Identification SYstem (DAISY)". Systematics & Biodiversity. 1: 287–300. doi:10.1017/S1477200003001208.