Novel plankton monitoring technologies (IMAGE)
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Four examples of instruments currently used for automated imaging methods in plankton monitoring:
- A - The Plankton Imager (Pi-10; Plankton Analytics), consists of a high-speed camera that images all passing particles in a flow of pumped seawater. Images are identified in real-time and uploaded via satellite.
- B - The ZooSCAN (Hydroptic) uses a flatbed scanner with specialised lighting and a watertight scanning chamber to record high-resolution images of zooplankton samples.
- C - The Imaging FlowCytobot (McLane Labs) is an automated submersible imaging flow cytometer that captures high-resolution images of particles (triggered by fluorescence) in situ.
- D - FlowCam is a flow imaging microscope that captures high-resolution images of microscopic particles as they pass through a flow chamber.
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