WinCAM NDVI Analysis System

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, ...).

Regent NDVIb Camera 12 MP Point&Shoot Camera

This compact point & shoot camera has a built-in lens. It can acquire images in jpeg format suitable for NDVI (blue) analyses in WinCAM NDVI. Its Red channel contains the NIR data while the blue one contains the visible data (the blue channel instead of red as in conventional older film based NDVI analyses). It weighs less than 200 grams.

Note 1: This camera cannot acquire conventional RGB color images.

Note 2: WinCAM NDVI cannot acquire images directly from the camera. These must be acquired to a memory card (like any conventional camera) then transferred to a computer for analysis with WinCAM NDVI.

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Calibration targets

Field Image Acquisition Kit
	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.

Sales related information

Recommended computer configuration. Image analysis programs are extremely demanding on computer resources (more than a word processor for example), so it is a bad idea to use an old computer for this type of application. Most computers sold today (2009) have the minimal power. Although a minimum configuration can work, you will gain a lot in productivity by adding some little extras like a large screen (22"-24"), plenty of RAM (over 2GB). It works with Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 (32 or 64-bit).

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.

Modified January 8, 2013