CollatriX: A GUI to collate MorphoMetriX outputs
Clara N. Bird, K. C. Bierlich · The Journal of Open Source Software · 2020
CollatriX is a graphical user interface (GUI) developed using PyQt5 to collate outputs from MorphoMetriX (Torres & Bierlich, 2020), a photogrammetric measurement GUI designed for morphometric analysis of wild animals from aerial imagery.For each image used in MorphoMe-triX, a comma-separated-values sheet (.csv) is produced containing the custom measurements (length, area, angle) and their associated labels created by the user.Hence, projects with a large number of images in their morphometric analysis have a large number of output files, creating time-intensive and tedious workflows to manually combine output files into a single data file to be used in analysis.CollatriX was designed as a user-friendly GUI overcoming this limitation by collating these measurement outputs into a single data sheet (.csv) based on the animal's individual ID (Fig. 1).Furthermore, CollatriX has two add-on functions, one to correct for altitude error from Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS or drone) flights and another for calculating different animal body condition metrics, following body volume from Christiansen et al. (2018) and body area index (BAI) from Burnett et al. (2018) (Fig. 1).The framework of CollatriX was also designed to have the flexibility to accommodate and encourage other future add-on functions.