Where to find the measurement algorithm?

[Kamlesh364]

@mikepound @robail-yasrab
I am interested to learn about the measurement algorithm your tool is using to analyze the length of the Root Architecture and other parameter.
Kindly provide me some resources to explore.

best regards,
Kamlesh

[mikepound]

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply! It appears I don't have any notifications enabled for this repo. The viewer uses a fairly simple mechanism to measure root length. Each root is a polyline, so a series of single line segments, and we simply sum the euclidean length of each of these. This works well as long as the line is nice and detailed, if it is too simple it skips areas of curvature which might then slightly underestimate the root length.

For lateral roots, the source point is considered the nearest point on the primary root from which it emerges.