A bird-world image-map system with spatiotemporal and color analysis functions

A bird-world image-map system is a new geographical system with spatiotemporal and color analysis functions. This System is like a “Multimedia Encyclopedia”, which makes it possible for users to share comprehensive birds´ knowledge, such as the name, habitat, migration and activity period of birds, by creating birds´ database from users´ input and fragment data on cyberspace and visualizing the datasets on a set of chronologically-ordered world-maps. Because of the rapid progress in multimedia, mobile and GIS technology, various kinds of information resources about natural environments of the real world can be accessed in a cyber space. In this situation, it is important to support users to acquire valuable knowledge that expresses user´s fragmentary information about the real world and adequate information on the cyber space. In order to provide and collect birds´ information in the world and create digital maps, this system realizes the functions for identifying a bird contained in a picture image input by a user through the global analysis of temporal, spatial and color information of images within a selected domain. In addition, this system makes it possible for users to share comprehensive birds´ knowledge, such as the habitat, migration and the activity period of birds by creating birds´ database from users´ input and fragment data on cyberspace and visualizing the datasets on a set of chronologically-ordered world-maps. This system is also applicable for natural environment analysis by visual observation of ecological form, distribution, history and change of living-things, such as global habitats and migration.