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Image Acquisition: scanners & cameras |
WinCAM NDVI can acquire images directly from most optical scanners or cameras that have a TWAIN driver and can also analyse images from almost any digital camera stored in tiff or jpeg files. For NDVI analysis a special camera which acquires images in the NIR and Visible parts of the spectrum is required. Below you will find the specifications of the camera that can be purchased with WinCAM NDVI as a complete system. The applications of the NDVI camera are numerous. While it can be used with WinCAM to compute the NDVI index of a scene, a part of it or per object, it can excel at measuring the vegetation cover over soil or other background when color alone cannot be used. In some situations where the leaves or vegetation have colors close to or identical to their background, they can usually be distinguished in the NIR part of the spectrum where alive vegation has a strong reflectance compared to other natural objects (soil, sand, rocks, water, ice, ...).
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Regent NDVI Camera 12 MP This is a DSLR camera on which you can put the lens of your choice (it uses one of the industry standard lens mount) or our fish-eye lens for canopy analysis. It acquires the two bands (NIR & Visible) required for NDVI analysis in a single shot and in one image. Unlike some other systems there is no need to acquire two images (one in NIR the other Vis) which can exhibits problems preventing the accurate calculation of NDVI: 1) subject movement because the two images are not taken at the exact same moment, 2) parallax effect (image content differences because they are acquired from different points of view) and 3) different exposure, white balance and other camera settings). Note that this camera cannot be used to acquire ordinary RGB visible color images.
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Field Image Acquisition Kit |
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The field image acquisition kit is for in-field images acquisition with digital cameras for their analysis with Regent's programs. One of its component is a white plastic backgroung (available in 4 different sizes) with a translucent anti-reflective fold-up cover that presses thin objects against it so that they lay flat. The kit comes with stick-on waterproof removable calibration targets which Regent's programs uses to balance the colors and measure objects dimensions. You enter their dimensions once and calibrating an image acquired with them involves a single mouse click on the target. | ||
WinCAM NDVI comes with an instruction manual with plenty of color illustrations, examples of applications and images for training. It also comes with prompt and competent technical support (exclusively by e-mail) by Regent Instruments personnel (the answering time is typically one hour when messages are received during North America eastern time business hours).
WinCAM NDVI is an evolving product. Measurements and features are regularly added based on user and potential customers requests. If you have not found what you are looking for in WinCAM NDVI or are unsure whether it can do what you want, feel free to contact our Sales Department. We will look at your images/requests to see if we can do something about it.
Prices in Canadian dollars, US dollars and Euro are available by contacting our Sales Department at sales@regentinstruments.com (Potential distributors, see our policy regarding distribution). When WinCAM NDVI is ordered with another Regent Instruments software (WinDENDRO, WinRHIZO, WinRHIZO Tron, WinCELL, WinSCANOPY, WinFOLIA, WinSEEDLE) a 10% discount is offered on the less expensive software.