Articles | Volume 32
https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-32-55-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-32-55-2023
Technical development
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26 Oct 2023
Technical development |  | 26 Oct 2023

Poor Man's Line Scan – a simple tool for the acquisition of high-resolution, undistorted drill core photos

Lukas Gegg and Johann Gegg

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Short summary
Geoscientists working with drill cores often struggle with proper photo documentation. We present a simple smartphone-based setup for acquiring high-resolution undistorted core pictures as an alternative to state-of-the-art commercial line scan imaging systems that are typically expensive and inflexible. It makes use of the phone's panoramic picture mode while being guided along the core in question on a rail, and the resulting images are of similar quality to classic line scan photos.
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