A New Automatic Statistical Microcharcoal Analysis Method Based on Image Processing, Demonstrated in the Weiyuan Section, Northwest China

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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Main Authors: Yaguo Zou, Yunfa Miao, Shiling Yang, Yongtao Zhao, Zisha Wang, Guoqian Tang, Shengli Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
Subjects:
microcharcoal
paleofire
automatic statistics
vegetation
Late Pleistocene
loess
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2021.609916/full

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