Abstract
Here we describe a high-performance imaging system for creating high-resolution images of whole insect drawers. All components of the system are industrial standard and can be adapted to meet the specific needs of entomological collections. A controlling unit allows the setting of imaging area (drawer size), step distance between individual images, number of images, image resolution, and shooting sequence order through a set of parameters. The system is highly configurable and can be used with a wide range of different optical hardware and image processing software.
Highlights
Natural history collections are nature’s treasure houses
About 80 million objects are deposited in German natural history collections alone, including about 65 million insects (Brake and Lampe 2004)
The material deposited in natural history collections like the ZSM is principally held and intended to support research purposes
Summary
DScan – a high-performance digital scanning system for entomological collections. Blagoderov | Received 22 March 2012 | Accepted 29 May 2012 | Published 20 July 2012 Citation: Schmidt S, Balke M, Lafogler S (2012) DScan – a high-performance digital scanning system for entomological collections. In: Blagoderov V, Smith VS (Ed) No specimen left behind: mass digitization of natural history collections.
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