Credits

VMSbase represents the implementation of several R routines that were developed by the Tor Vergata University of Rome team involved in the Italian National Program for the Data Collection Framework for Fisheries Data between 2009 and 2012.

The VMSbase routines, structure, and interface were developed in 2013 by the following people.

Stefano Cataudella

Ecology and fisheries sciences

Full Professor of Ecology at Tor Vergata University of Rome and president of the FAO RFMO General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean and Black Sea.

Antonio Parisi

Statistical sciences

Researcher at the Department of Economics and Finance, working on latent variable models and bioeconomic modelling.

Lorenzo D'Andrea

Spatial modelling and R

Postgraduate Research Assistant and PhD student in bioinformatics, spatial modelling, and R development.

Tommaso Russo

Fisheries ecology

Researcher at the Laboratory of Experimental Ecology and Aquaculture, working on VMS data and predictive models.

Institutions and partners

Tor Vergata University of Rome

Laboratory of Experimental Ecology and Aquaculture

General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean