Open AccessTHE FLAT BED SCANER, A HELPFULL TOOL FOR MARINE ORGANISMS CATALOGUING
Author(s) -
F Javier Reyes,
R S Gabriel Navas
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
boletin de investigaciones marinas y costeras/boletín de investigaciones marinas y costeras
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2590-4671
pISSN - 0122-9761
DOI - 10.25268/bimc.invemar.2000.29.0.311
Subject(s) - scanner , geology , remote sensing , computer science , environmental science , artificial intelligence
The Flat Bed Scaner, a helpfull tool for marine organisms cataloguing.A cheap and versatile methodology to get digital images of dry and wet preserved organisms, using a flat bed scanner, is presented. To obtain the images of wet specimens, a shallow pool was glued on top of the scanner glass. The pool is filled with water or alcohol and the organisms are immersed and their structures expanded. The best images were obtained with organisms between 1.5 and 15 cm in length. The depth of field was limited to 1.2 cm. These images are also useful for taxonomical research without the need of manipulating the organisms; they can be used too, to compare with better accuracy certain structures between different specimens.