Minimum requirements: Windows 10 or 8 operating system, an Intel or AMD x86_64 processor, and 8 GB of RAM. If the processor supports Intel AVX 2.0, the code is optimized.

License: You can redistribute it and/or modify it as permissible under the GNU General Public License.

Source code: The source code is available on GitHub.

Installing the program: Download RhizoVisionExplorer-2.0.3-windows-x64.zip for Windows below and uncompress the ZIP file to a local directory and run RhizoVisionExplorer.exe. You may be prompted to confirm the security of the application by Windows Defender or other applications.

An illustrated manual is included in the manual folder of the RVE download as a PDF.

The imageexamples folder includes PNG files of wheat root crowns taken with the RhizoVision Crown platform and JPG files of scanned disconnected wheat roots at 600 DPI for testing purposes.

Please contact the creators with concerns or comments:

Anand Seethepalli

anand_seethepalli@yahoo.co.in

Larry M. York

yorklm@ornl.gov

Brief change log below, see full log as 'changelog.txt' included with the download.

V2.0.3 has no feature changes but reflects a change in copyright courtesy of Noble Research Institute, LLC to Anand Seethepalli and Larry York and updated the license to the GNU GPL from the modified Noble GPL.

V2.0.2 was the first public release and had some new features.

V2.0.1 was the closed access beta version used for wide testing.