2019 年 56 巻 1 号 p. 67-70
Amitori Bay, located in northwestern Iriomote Island, is characterized by its varied physical environments such as geographical features, wave height, and current in spite of its small size. It also exhibits a diverse distribution of coral reefs in response. Physical data acquired through numerical analysis, although including errors from actual measurements, provide much information by being interpolated spatially, and are useful for the understanding of phenomena. However, the spatial distribution of corals is difficult to estimate using an ecosystem model because the coral ecology has numerous and important unknown characteristics. We proposed to use AI to estimate the horizontal distribution of coral cover based on the association between coral cover and physical data.