Towards automation of palynology 1: analysis of pollen shape and ornamentation using simple geometric measures, derived from scanning electron microscope images

• Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science
• Main Authors: Treloar, W. J., Taylor, G. E., Flenley, J. R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2004
• Subjects: Henderson Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.871; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjqs.871; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jqs.871

Abstract This is the first of a series of papers on the theme of automated pollen analysis. The automation of pollen analysis could result in numerous advantages for the reconstruction of past environments, with larger data sets made practical, objectivity and fine resolution sampling. There are als...