CI-600 Root Scanner
Observing a root system throughout a plant’s life cycle is key to understanding overall plant behavior and health, and to improving crop performance.
The CI-600 is a minirhizotron that gives plant scientists, crop consultants, and farmers the ability to capture non-destructive, high-resolution, digital images of living roots in soil over multiple growing seasons. Durable and lightweight, the CI-600 is a portable minirhizotron that is easy to transport to any field location and can be used in sites with root tubes across a range of treatments or conditions. Our free root analysis software, RootSnap!, quickly and easily calculates parameters including root length, area, volume, diameter & branching angle.
With the CI-600, image acquisition can be performed automatically and remotely. Wireless connectivity allows the researcher to retrieve root images with virtually any wireless device.
- Super high-resolution image up to 23.5 million pixels
- Linear scanning with no distortion
- Each scan provides a 360-degree image (21.59 × 19.56cm)
- Very portable and quick operation
- Allows observing root growth and behaviour during an entire growing season or longer
- USB interface for laptop computer image storage
- CI-601/602 enables unmanned long term remote root image monitoring
The CI-600 is designed for long-term root studies on living plants in the field. Install clear acrylic tubes within the study area prior to the growing season. When the plant begins to build a network of roots, images of the structure and behaviour of the roots can be recorded and analysed with an available root analysis software package. The CI-600 scanner head fits within the tubes to scan roots as they grow over time, providing nearly 360-degree high-resolution colour images of soil and roots.
To obtain an image, insert the CI-600 scan head into a pre-installed underground tube and begin the scanning program on the computer. The scan head automatically rotates nearly 360-degrees, creating a 21.59 × 19.56cm-size high-resolution colour image of the soil and roots. Users can easily move the scan head to different depths, and from tube to tube.
CI-600 comes with:
- The CI-600 main scanner unit
- Scanning software
- USB connecting cable
- Three 105cm standard clear tubes with end caps
- Indicator rod
- Operation manual
- Calibration tube
- Software manual
- Hard-shell instrument carrying case
Optional:
- Laptop or Handheld computer
- Imaging analysis software
For the easy installation of tubes, we offer a gasoline powered auger set (sold separately). We will be happy to provide more information on this product, upon request.
Specifications
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| Scanner Resolution | 100, 300, 600 and 1200 dpi settings. |
| One Image Size | 21.6cm x 19.6cm (WxL) |
| Scan Speed | 30 seconds to 4 minutes – depending on scan resolution |
| Interface | USB |
| Power Supply | Computer USB port |
| Scan Head Dimensions | 34.3 cm long x 6.4 cm diameter |
| Standard Clear Tube Dimensions | 6.4 cm inner diameter x 105 cm length |
| Weight | 750g |
Specifications are subject to change.
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CI-690 RootSnap!
RootSnap! Root Image Analysis Software.
| CI600 References |
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| Fischer, D.G., Hart, S.C., LeRoy, C.J. and Whitman, T.G. 2007, ‘Variation in Below-ground Carbon Fluxes along a Populus Hybridization Gradient’, New Phytologist, vol. 176, pp. 415-425.
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| Fischer, D.G., Hart, S.C., Rehill, B.J., Lindroth, R.L., Keim, P. and Whitham, T.G. 2006, ‘Do High-tannin Leaves Require More Roots?’, Oecologia, vol. 149, pp. 668-675.
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| Gaul, D., Hertel, D., Borken, W., Matzner, E. and Leuschner, C. 2008, ‘Effects of Experimental Drought on the Fine Root System of Mature Norway Spruce’, Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 256, pp. 1151-1159.
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| Graefe, S., Hertel, D. and Leuschner, C. 2008, ‘Fine Root Dynamics along a 2,000-m Elevation Transect in South Ecuadorian Mountain Rainforests’, Plant and Soil
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| Meier, I.C. 2007, Above ground and below ground response of European beech to drought: field studies and experiments. zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultäten. Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen: 131.
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