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Collection and Identification of Pollen from Honey Bee Colonies
Published on: January 19, 2021
Pollen characterization and identification by elastically scattered light
Mario Surbek1, Cemal Esen, Gustav Schweiger
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany. surbek@lat.rub.de
Journal of Biophotonics
|March 9, 2010
Abstract:
The authors recorded the elastic light-scattering pattern of pollen over a large spatial angle range to investigate the potential light scattering for pollen identification. The scattering from elm, hazel, birch, chestnut, willow, sunflower, ragweed and pine was measured. The scattering patterns show distinct differences that can be used for the classification of pollen with simple algorithms.

