Research & Citations

A UCLA doctoral thesis running a blinded staining-quality evaluation on image patches hosted on the GIGAmacro platform.

A UC Davis doctoral thesis whose author took the habitus photographs herself on the Bohart Museum Magnify 2.

A UCLA doctoral thesis uploading transformed microscopy images to the GIGAmacro Viewer for pathologist review.

A UCLA doctoral thesis using the GIGAmacro Viewer to let board-certified pathologists confidentially review whole slide images in a browser.

A University of Missouri thesis imaging small shelly fossils from Death Valley on a Magnify2, sorted by taphonomic grade.

A University of Missouri thesis photographing late Eocene coprolites on a Magnify2, working on material from the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology.

A University of Missouri geochemistry thesis using a Magnify2 for its optical microscopy and imaging.

A University of Missouri thesis imaging Ediacaran discoidal fossils on a Magnify2.

A University of Missouri thesis photographing Silurian fossils on a Magnify2, working on material borrowed from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum.

A University of Missouri dissertation using a Magnify2 for high-resolution mosaic photography alongside SEM and optical microscopy.

A University of Missouri thesis collecting high-resolution photomosaics of Palaeozoic arthropod type specimens on a Magnify2.

A University of Missouri doctoral dissertation on predation in the fossil record, crediting Gigamacro microscopy for its shell imaging.

A University of Minnesota thesis scanning tree cores at roughly 18,000 dpi on a GIGAmacro system, processed with tools built by the AISOS imaging centre.

A University of Minnesota thesis on fire, climate and growth in red pine, crediting the AISOS Gigamacro and LinearSnap systems for its tree-core imaging.

A University of Minnesota undergraduate research project imaged tree cores on a GIGAmacro to compare early wood vessel size in the five years either side of a 2001 flood.

UC Davis entomologists photographed a new genus and species of spider wasp on a Magnify 2 for its formal description in Zootaxa.

Senckenberg Frankfurt used a Magnify 2 for the whole-body habitus imaging in a multimodal anatomical study of the bullet ant, alongside synchrotron microCT and confocal microscopy.

University of Minnesota forest entomologists scanned tree cores at roughly 18,000 dpi on a GIGAmacro system to link tree defences to bark beetle success.

Smithsonian NMNH material photographed on a Magnify2 for a revision of a neotropical tachinid tribe, including the description of two new species.

A community college geology programme running two GIGAmacro systems as part of a public gigapixel image collection, and describing the Viewer release the same year.

The Australian National Insect Collection imaged roughly 90 per cent of a cricket tribe on a GIGAmacro system, including holotypes, for a museomics revision.

A University of Missouri dissertation that photographed acid-residue fossil recoveries on a GIGAmacro robotic system before machine-learning segmentation in FIJI.

A University of Missouri masters thesis on Cambrian fossil preservation, with specimen imaging on a Magnify2 and composites assembled in GIGAmacro Flow.

A UC Davis team imaged 148 mayfly, stonefly and caddisfly specimens on a Magnify2, then sequenced them, to close gaps in the DNA barcode library used for California water quality biomonitoring.

Open-source software written by a third party specifically to stitch GIGAmacro images of wood samples.

Roman mosaics in Jaen published as high-resolution orthophotos, made viewable to readers through the GIGAmacro Viewer.

The American Museum of Natural History imaged specimens and their labels at scale on a Magnify2, and acknowledges buying the system.

A new Southern African bee fly described from Magnify2 imagery.

An AI pipeline for whole-drawer insect imaging built around, and designed for, Magnify2 output.

Acid-residue fossils imaged on a Magnify2 and compared against X-ray microscopy to test preparation bias.

Eocene coprolites imaged at gigapixel resolution alongside X-ray tomography.

UCLA ran a blind pathologist evaluation of 240 virtually stained breast-tissue patches on the GIGAmacro Viewer.

Silurian conulariids and their epibionts documented on a Magnify2.

Tree-ring cell structure imaged on a Magnify2 at 0.92 micron pixel size, as part of a new density-measurement method.

A digital teaching collection of freshwater macroinvertebrates built on gigapixel imaging, with the GIGAmacro robot pictured in the paper.

Mydas-fly genera revised at the Smithsonian using a Magnify2 rig.

Robber flies revised using two separate Magnify2 rigs, at the Bohart Museum and the Smithsonian.

UCLA pathologists reviewed virtually stained kidney biopsies through the GIGAmacro Viewer in an ordinary browser.

A new Cambrian worm described from specimens imaged on a Magnify2 and stitched in GIGAmacro Flow.

The University of Minnesota applied gigapixel macro photography to tree-ring cores, setting out the method that later dendrochronology work builds on.

Robber flies reviewed using a Magnify2 alongside a second imaging lab.

Smithsonian horse-fly types revised from whole-habitus images captured on a Magnify2.

Nineteenth-century engraved woodblocks captured at gigapixel resolution for art-historical study.

Indiana University built tooling around its GIGAmacro workflow and reported a 98.5% cut in camera setup time.

Indiana University used a Magnify2 to make its microfossil collection accessible, automating photography and post-production.

Northern Arizona University used the GIGAmacro Viewer to bring annotated field geology to students.

The GIGAmacro viewing platform presented as part of a toolkit for telling North America geologic story.

A new Iranian whip spider described from Smithsonian Magnify2 imagery.

Southern African assassin flies revised from Magnify2 habitus images.

Indiana University pairs its own GIGAmacro system with cloud infrastructure to digitise tens of thousands of microfossil slides.

Bumblebee and velvet-ant colour variation quantified from Magnify2 imagery.

GIGAmacro presented on high-resolution imaging in the geoscience curriculum at GSA 2017.

Carved stone and a building stamp scanned by the University of Minnesota imaging service and published as open datasets.

Yunnan mosses documented with Magnify 2 imagery produced at the California Academy of Sciences.

GigaPan and GIGAmacro taught as a named short course to geoscience educators at GSA 2014.