A New Automatic Statistical Microcharcoal Analysis Method Based on Image Processing, Demonstrated in the Weiyuan Section, Northwest China
Microcharcoal is a proxy of biomass burning and widely used in paleoenvironment research to reconstruct the fire history, which is influenced by the climate and land cover changes of the past. At present, microcharcoal characteristics (amount, size, shape) are commonly quantified by visual inspectio...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2021-02-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Earth Science |
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| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2021.609916/full |