Plateforme de microscopie automatisée

OVERVIEW
Acronym MICRO-AUTOMATE-PTA
Partner institution

Aix-Marseille Université





Description

The CEREGE Research Unit developed unique recognition tools in the field of micropaleontology. In particular, one of its research teams (team "Climate") created automated classification softwares applied to coccoliths and coccolithophorids (SYRACO), foraminids and radiolarians (ParticleTrieur) on a routine base. All the image acquisition and processing equipments form together the MICROAUTOMATE facility.

SCIENTIFIC DOMAIN
Scientific domain

LS8_5 - Biological aspects of environmental change, including climate change - Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution





 

PE10_12 - Sedimentology, soil science, palaeontology, earth evolution - Earth System Science





 

PE10_9 - Biogeochemistry, biogeochemical cycles, environmental chemistry - Earth System Science





 

LS8_13 - Marine biology and ecology - Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution





 

LS8_8 - Phylogenetics, systematics, comparative biology - Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution





Keywords

Image processing





 

morphometry





 

AI





 

automated acquisition





 

nannoplancton





 

mass optical measurement





 

CNN classification





 

shape recognition





 

birefringence





INFRASTRUCTURE
Remote access details

MICROANTOMATE is open to scientific communities of both the academic and private sectors.

AMENITIES
Equipment

MICROAUTOMATE includes a set of 4 cameras, a scanning electron microscope (SEM), polarizing inverted automated microscope Dmi8, polarizing automated microscope DM6000, MISO.
This set of equipments is available for micropaleontology observation and analyses.