Engineering design of an image acquisition and analysis system for dendrochronology

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 453-463

  Conner, W Steven ^a   Schowengerdt, Robert A ^a   Munro, Martin ^b   Hughes, Malcolm K ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; DATA ACQUISITION; EDGE DETECTION; FOCUSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ANALYSIS SYSTEM; DENCHRONOLOGY; DIGITAL MICROSCOPY; FOCUS DETECTION; IMAGE ACQUISITION; TREE RING;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033890169     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602383     Document Type: Article

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