Image Requirements

Image File Format

Rootfly accepts images in either jpeg or bmp formats.

Rootfly expects root images of a project to adhere to common filename conventions.  While the session, window, and tube of each root must be specified in the filename, other parameters, such as experiment, time, and initials may also be given (such as in the image below).  For example, the Bartz ICAP uses the filename format experiment_T[tube #]_L[window #]_[session date]_[time]_[session #]_[initials].jpg.  In Rootfly, this image file format would be equivalent to: [expt]_T[tube]_L[win]_[yyyy.mm.dd]_[time]_[sess]_user].jpg.  In practice, a image file of this format may appear as: EXPERIMENT_T001_L000_2007.05.09_070000_001_CBD.jpg.

When the project image directory is specified, any Minirhizotron image not in this format will be ignored.  To learn more about making root images ready for a Rootfly project, review preparing images

Image: Image File Format Parameters


Image Size

There is no restriction on the size of the root images used.  However, all images in a single experiment must be of the same size, because images of different sizes require different calibration parameters to convert the image pixels to world lengths.  Any images used by Rootfly will be scaled to the size of the image window.

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