Automatic extraction of leaf characters from herbarium specimens

Taxon

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 231-244

  Corney, David P A ^a   Clark, Jonathan Y ^a   Lilian Tang, H ^a   Wilkin, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automation; Digitization; Herbarium specimens; Leaf morphology; Tilia

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DIGITIZATION; HERBARIUM; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; SOFTWARE; SPECIMEN BANK; TAXONOMY;

TILIA;

EID: 84857650197     PISSN: 00400262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tax.611016     Document Type: Article

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