RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 CaptuRING: A do‐it‐yourself tool for wood sample digitization
A1 García Hidalgo, Miguel
A1 García Pedrero, Ángel Mario
A1 Colón, Daniel
A1 Sangüesa Barreda, Gabriel
A1 García-Cervigón Morales, Ana Isabel
A1 López Molina, Juan
A1 Hernández Alonso, Héctor
A1 Rozas Ortiz, Vicente Fernando
A1 Olano Mendoza, José Miguel
A1 Alonso Gómez, Víctor
K1 Dendrochronology
K1 Diy
K1 Hardware
K1 Open source
K1 Sample digitization
K1 Software
K1 Wood cores
K1 Wood slices
K1 31 Ciencias Agrarias
AB Standard procedures to obtain high-quality images of wood samples have become a bottleneck in the digitization of dendrochronology. Digitization is currently dominated by flatbed scanners, but the use of these devices is limited by sample length and surface flatness. Although several solutions based on digital photography have been published, they lack effective digitization processes or are too expensive to be widely adopted.Free open-source software and hardware has emerged as an alternative to create research tools that combine reduced costs with high reliability. Here we present CaptuRING, an open-source tool for wood sample digitization combining a do-it-yourself hardware based on Arduino® with a DSLR camera and a free open-source software with an easy-to-use graphical user interface.We compared CaptuRing with image acquisition from a standard flatbed scanner Epson® V750PRO. CaptuRING outperforms scanner image resolution and sharpness, while it removes sample size limitations. Moreover, CaptuRing performs this task in less than half of the time needed by Epson® V750PRO flatbed scanner.CaptuRING emerges as a reliable and low-cost tool to capture high-resolution images of wood samples boosting current digitization processes. The combination of free open software and hardware empowers dendrochronology to advance in wood sample digitization.
PB Wiley
SN 2041-210X
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52831
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52831
LA eng
NO Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2022.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 16-jul-2024