tpsDIG2 & tpsUtil

tpsDIG2 has been designed by F. James Rohlf of the State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA) "to facilitate the statistical analysis of landmark data in morphometrics by making it easier to collect and maintain landmark data from digitized images" (Rohlf, F. J. 2004. tpsDig, digitize landmarks and outlines, version 2.0. Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook.).

Download. tpsDIG2 is available from the Stony Brook Morphometrics website at http:/life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/
In the listing of "Contents" choose "Software", then "Data Acquisition". tpsDIG2 will be in the first panel. Select the highlighted tpsDIG2 to download and install the file. As of 1 July 2009 Version 2.12 was available. The program tpsdig2w32.exe is a c. 2 MB zipped file.

Download. tpsUtil is accessed under Contents | "Utility Programs". Select tpsUtil to download and install. Version 1.44 was in place as 1 July 2009. The tpsutilw32.exe file is a xxx. MB file. This program is used to structure and edit image files to be processed by tpsDIG2.

Documentation. Help files are provided in html (TPSDIG2.htm) and pdf (tpsDIG2.pdf) formats as part of the download of the programs.

ImageJ

ImageJ is a public domain Windows-based Java image processing program inspired by NIH Image for the MacIntosh and authored by Wayne Rasband of the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland (USA). The program is free and downloadable from http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/ . Overview of ImageJ.

Download. At the download website choose "downloads" and then select the Windows version: ImageJ 1.44 (3 MB) including JRE's 1.6.0_14 (27 MB) Java runtime environment (versions available as of 1 July 2009).

Documentation. The complete documentation for ImageJ can be viewed and downloaded at http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/docs/index.html.