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About This GigaPan
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Chris Fastie
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- 83
- Size
- 0.68 Gigapixels
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- 3048
- Date added
- August 17, 2009
- Date taken
- August 17, 2009
- Gear
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Nikkor P C 105mm f/2.5, Nikon...
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- fofs, fastie, usa, salisburyvt, habitatvt, forest, vermont, 105mm, stf, epic100
- Description
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Mesic Red Oak-Northern Hardwood Forest on a kame terrace in Salisbury, Vermont -- Large diameter red and white oaks in this small stand are the most valuable timber in the 130 acre Salisbury Town Forest. Many trees could provide veneer-quality logs, making some worth a few hundred dollars apiece. Although the canopy is dominated by oaks, the subcanopy trees are mostly red maple, and virtually no oak seedlings or saplings are present. The large oaks established at the turn of the 20th century when wild turkey and white-tailed deer were uncommon. Today, healthy populations of these animals eat acorns or browse oak seedlings, preventing oak regeneration. Harvesting the oaks could result in conversion of the stand to less merchantable red maple or beech forest.
This gigapan can be viewed in its geographic context here: conservation.townofsalisbury.org/panoramas/townforest/index.htm
More information is in a comment.
Stitcher Notes
ToggleMinimizeGigaPan Stitcher version 0.4.4090 (Windows)
Panorama size: 682 megapixels (43892 x 15550 pixels)
Input images: 288 (24 columns by 12 rows)
Field of view: 182.4 degrees wide by 64.6 degrees high (top=42.7, bottom=-21.9)
Settings:
All default settings
Original image properties:
Camera make: NIKON CORPORATION
Camera model: NIKON D40
Image size: 3008x2000 (6.0 megapixels)
Capture time: unknown
Aperture: unknown
Exposure time: unknown
ISO: unknown
Focal length (35mm equiv.): unknown
White balance: unknown
Exposure mode: unknown
Horizontal overlap: 41.3 to 55.4 percent
Vertical overlap: 36.6 to 45.5 percent
Computer stats: 3581.58 MB RAM, 2 CPUs
Total time 4:00:07 (0:50 per picture)
Alignment: 39:59, Projection: 12:44, Blending: 3:07:23
Chris Fastie (August 18, 2009, 05:31AM )
Species in this scene, in order of importance within category: ... Overstory trees--red oak (Quercus rubra), white oak (Quercus alba)…. Understory trees/shrubs -- red maple (Acer rubrum), witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana), striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum), maple leaved viburnum (Viburnun acerifolium), low sweet blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium), partridge berry (Mitchella repens)… Herbs -- sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis), braken fern (Pteridium aquilinum), star flower, (Trientalis borealis) wreath goldenrod (Solidago caesia), teaberry (Gaulteria procumbens)…. Elevation 180 m (590 ft), Camera location from GPS: N43 56.455 W73 05.469… Notes: I used a Nikon D40 (ISO 200, 1 second) with an old Nikkor 105mm f/2.5 lens at f/32. Photos were recorded in NEF, and exposure, recovery, and fill light were applied to groups of photos as needed before stitching.