Re: Assessing bird colouration

Posted by Gabriel Landini on Dec 19, 2010; 8:21pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Assessing-bird-colouration-tp3686141p3686142.html

On Sunday 19 December 2010 19:38:18 Ross Ahmed wrote:
> In the paper above, the spectrometer was used to analyse the colouration of
> museum specimens of Hoopoe (i.e. the birds are dead/stuffed). Is it possible
> to generate similar results by analysing a photo of a dead/stuffed Hoopoe
> using Image J?

Do you mean using an RGB image? No, you can't.
You need spectrophotometer or a multispectral setup (for example a camera with
a tunable filter or a collection of band pass filters).
Cheers
Gabriel