DendroElevator
DendroElevator is an open-source web platform for tree-ring image curation, visualization, and analysis. The system is optimized to maximize access to gigapixel images of tree rings and related paleoenvironmental proxy datatypes for remote research and distanced collaboration.
DendroElevator features a browser-based toolkit for tree-ring image visualization and time series measurement built for Elevator, a cloud-hosted digital asset management software with curation and robust streaming capabilities for file types of any size and common 2D and 3D formats, plus adaptability for various metadata and access permissions schemas.
DendroElevator constitutes an initial realization of our vision to create an open source, easily accessible online repository of high quality tree-ring imagery for entire collections of specimens. More information is here.
Featured Item:
image of a big-cone Douglas-fir tree core collected in Kern County, California. Crossdating with dendrochronology confirmed growth increments for Common Era years 1538–2021
Pseudotsuga macrocarpa
- 2021
- For an interactive tour of conifer tree rings and some of the environmental information they encode, click on this asset, zoom in, and pan around. Follow the red dots with prompts numbered from 1–22. Daniel Griffin, July 2022
- Daniel Griffin, Matthew Trumper