ProdottoZooScan ZooScan The ZooSCAN (CNRS patent) system makes use of scanner technology with custom lighting and a watertight scanning chamber into which liquid zooplankton samples can be placed. ZooScanHydropticThe scanner recovers a high-resolution, digitial image and the sample can be recovered without damage. (You can download an example image exactly as it was recovered here.) These digital images can then be investigated by computer processing.While the resolution of the digitized zooplankton images is lower than the image obtained using a binocular microscope this technique has proved to be more than adequate for large sample sets. Identification of species is done by automatic comparison of the image (vignette) of each individual animal in the scanned image with a library data set which may be built by the investigator for each individual survey or imported from a previous survey. The latest machine learning algorithm allows high recognition levels even if we recommend complementary manual sorting to achieve a high number of taxonomic groups.DocumentiManualeManuale Zooscan - Download Zooscan HW Manual - Download ZooProcess Setup Manual - Download ZooScan: First steps with ecotaxa - Download Ecotaxa VLFR FTP Manual - Download Ecotaxa tables from ZooScan & ZooProcess projects - Download Prodotti correlati UVP6-LP The Underwater Vision Profiler or UVP (CNRS patent) is designed to study large (>100 µm) particles and zooplankton simultaneously and to quantify them in a known volume of water. The UVP system makes use of computerised optical technology with custom lighting to acquire digital images of zooplankton IN SITU down to depths of 6000m. |
