New ImageJ plugin under development

Posted by Brent Wood on Jun 29, 2007; 2:31am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Own-Histograms-in-Imagej-tp3698964p3698966.html

Hi,

Apologies for the unspecific subject, but, it was hard to be both
descriptive & brief enough.

At NIWA (where I work) we are using ImageJ to derive data describing the
contents of seabed (benthic) photos.

The data captured includes scaling of images (real world coverage),
categorising of images, as well as recording taxa & substrate
information (numbers of points or no & %area for areas) describing the
photo content.

This is pretty much a manual process, with various taxonomists,
biologists & geologists providing input.

The plugin is essentially a single window allowing all these data to be
captured easily & quickly, in a session based approach. All data,
including ROI's, are written to, stored in & retrieved from a Postgres
(PostGIS) database. Image data can be linked to image location data in
the database, so that (using PostGIS to manage the location) data can
easily be queried spatially & mapped using a wide range of FOSS GIS &
web mapping tools.

It is nearing completion, with final tweaking/bug fixing/user trials
being carried out.

While our intended use is primarily seabed oriented, the application
would be just as useful for terrestrial work using aerial or satellite
photos.

We are still in the final testing stage for our users, but it should
soon be possible to make copies available to others interested in using
or testing it. Note that we do plan on making it publicly available.

If anyone is interested in using this application, especially if they
are willing to help with the final debugging, testing & documenting
processes, please let me know.


Cheers,

   Brent Wood