Engineering design of an image acquisition and analysis system for dendrochronology

W. Steven Conner; Robert A. Schowengerdt; Martin Munro; Malcolm K. Hughes

doi:10.1117/1.602383

1 February 2000 Engineering design of an image acquisition and analysis system for dendrochronology

W. Steven Conner, Robert A. Schowengerdt, Martin Munro, Malcolm K. Hughes

Optical Engineering, Vol. 39, Issue 2, (February 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602383

The design and implementation of a computer-vision-based analysis system for dendrochronology are described. The primary issues covered are automatic focus detection, illumination distortion, spatial and radiometric registration of a sequence of images into a single mosaic, and edge detection and linking. These issues are not unique to the application, but are likely of interest to anyone developing automated image analysis systems. A modification of the Canny edge detection algorithm that adapts to the variable characteristics of tree-ring images is also described.

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W. Steven Conner, Robert A. Schowengerdt, Martin Munro, and Malcolm K. Hughes "Engineering design of an image acquisition and analysis system for dendrochronology," Optical Engineering 39(2), (1 February 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602383

Published: 1 February 2000

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