FISH Classification

The FISH tool was developed for the Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research to classify fish populations in Rivers throughout the UK.

The software was developed in Oracle with the new APEX 3.2 release. Custom APEX templates were created including custom logon screens and backend functionality. JQuery is used to provide a more seemless contemporary user experience, and also for information popups etc.

Ecologists record counts of various fish species at locations throughout the country. These data sets are uploaded to the FISH server (Oracle Apex on 11g) and modelled using algorithms designed by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) in Dorset.

Datasets are presented as one of: csv, txt, tsv, xml, xls formats. The FISH software automatically recognises the contents and converts to a common XSD based XML instance for further processing.

Fish tool

The software estimates the expected fish catch at that river stretch and produces classifications based on stastical routines that determine the likelyhood of fiah being present in that stretch at that time of year.

Centralised login

The software produces outputs in XML, GML, KML, CSV and PDF formats. The reports generated by the software are used to acertain water quality and ecological viability of predetermined locations across the UK and are fed back to the EU for integration in their european ecology mapping applications.

Data visualisation areas help the user get an instant feel for a location’s characteristics and overall eceological pressures.