Coniferous wood fossils as records of paleoecology, paleoclimatology, and paleoenvironment: A review

LN Torres, X Shi, Y Na, B Wang, C Tian, W Pei… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2024 - Elsevier
Trees record a series of physiological responses to climatic and environmental changes
within their wood. Consequently, quantitative and qualitative analyses of their tree growth …

DendroCT–Dendrochronology without damage

J Bill, A Daly, Ø Johnsen, KS Dalen - Dendrochronologia, 2012 - Elsevier
The paper describes an evaluation of the applicability of computer tomography in
archaeological dendrochronology. Two different computer tomographs were tested, a …

DeepDendro–a tree rings detector based on a deep convolutional neural network

A Fabijańska, M Danek - Computers and electronics in agriculture, 2018 - Elsevier
Tree-ring analysis is widely used in many different fields of science. Among others,
information carried by annual tree rings allows determining the rates of environmental …

MtreeRing: An R package with graphical user interface for automatic measurement of tree ring widths using image processing techniques

J Shi, W Xiang, Q Liu, S Shah - Dendrochronologia, 2019 - Elsevier
Accurate measurements of ring-width series are essential for dendrochronological analyses.
We present an R package MtreeRing for ring-width measurements on scanned digital …

[HTML][HTML] Automated 3D tree-ring detection and measurement from X-ray computed tomography

J Martinez-Garcia, I Stelzner, J Stelzner, D Gwerder… - …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tree ring analysis is essential to reveal the environmental information encoded in the wood
structure. It provides quantitative data on the anatomical structure which can be used, for …

Towards automatic tree rings detection in images of scanned wood samples

A Fabijańska, M Danek, J Barniak… - Computers and Electronics …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, the problem of automation of dendrochronological measurements is
considered. In particular, a fully automatic, image-based approach for detecting tree-ring …

A fast pith detection for computed tomography scanned hardwood logs

R Gazo, J Vanek, M Abdul_Massih, B Benes - Computers and electronics in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Tree and log evaluation prior to processing is traditionally conducted by visual inspection of
the outside surface. This approach has obvious limitations, because many internal features …

[HTML][HTML] A simple program to measure and analyse tree rings using Excel, R and SigmaScan

P Hietz - Dendrochronologia, 2011 - Elsevier
I present a new software that links a program for image analysis (SigmaScan), one for
spreadsheets (Excel) and one for statistical analysis (R) for applications of tree-ring analysis …

[HTML][HTML] Automated tree ring detection of common Indiana hardwood species through deep learning: Introducing a new dataset of annotated images

F Wu, Y Huang, B Benes, CC Warner… - Information Processing in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Tree-ring dating enables gathering necessary knowledge about trees, and it is essential in
many areas, including forest management and the timber industry. Tree-ring dating can be …

[HTML][HTML] CTRing: An R package to extract wood density profiles from computed tomography images of discs and logs

D Mahatara, F Campelo, L Houle, A Caron, J Barrette… - …, 2024 - Elsevier
Accurately determining the position of pith and accessing tree-ring density profiles, including
intra-ring variations, is important for both the forest industry and dendroclimatology. Although …