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A portable computerized plankton counting system is presented, which has the potential to enumerate 255 different species per sample. The software is used to count phytoplankton samples and produce summary data. The hardware allows the results to be reproduced in the form of a hardcopy, stored on a cassette tape, or transferred to a larger computer for analysis.
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Jackson, G.S., Hamilton, P., Solomon, K. et al. A computerized plankton counter. Hydrobiologia 118, 225–228 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00021048
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00021048