WinRoot

WinRoot is a user friendly GUI (Graphical User Interface) program (developed in C programming language with the aid of the Windows API - Application Programming Interface), which makes it possible to open an image file (scan) of a root, implement segmentation and skeletonization of the image, and then perform counting of intersections of the root with the grid of chosen dimensions, for different grid positions (angle and offset). Finally, the program implements the Laplace approximation to estimate the root length (see accompanying preprint Stosic, B., "Monte Carlo estimate of error of the line intersect method", submitted to Journal of Ecology, 2016.), and then mean diameter and volume. The results of multiple Monte Carlo runs are stored into an ASCII file for posterior analysis.<br>