OVERVIEW
Acronym
MICRO-AUTOMATE-PTAPartner 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.