Split-Desktop ® refers to the "user-assisted" version of the software program that can be run by engineers or technicians at on-site locations. Digital images acquired in the field can be analyzed in the field on a laptop or at the office to determine the size distribution of your fragmented rock at any stage in the comminution process.
The source of these images can be a muck pile, haul truck, leach pile, draw point, waste dump, stockpile, conveyor belt, or any other situation where clear images of rock fragments can be obtained.
Split-Desktop accepts both digital still and video images for analysis. There must be a mechanism (software and/or hardware) for downloading digital or video camera images onto the computer: for digital camera images only camera software is required and for video camera images a framegrabber board is required. For higher resolution images and ease of image download, a digital camera is recommended.
The first step is for the user to acquire images in the field and download these images onto the computer. Split-Desktop then assists the user in properly scaling the images. Next, the fragments in each of the images are delineated automatically and the size distribution of the rock fragments is determined.
Split-Desktop plots the resulting size distributions in various forms (linear-linear, log-linear, log-log, and Rosin-Rammler). The size distribution results can be stored in a tab-delineated file for use in spreadsheet and plotting programs. In addition, Split-Desktop automatically generates results reports in HTML.
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