We present a unique dataset of historical tropical tree phenology observations at two sites from different bioclimatic regions across the Congo Basin. These data may provide a reference baseline and key information on how tree species are responding to a changing climate.
BlueGreen Labs was happy to co-author and support a research paper on Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) of tabulated data led by Bas Vercruysse (Vercruysse et al. 2025) and the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of Ghent. This work addresses the many issues with processing large volumes of historical tabulated data with some potential workflows. In particular, the work shows that due to the law of large numbers the variability of multi-author records (handwritten styles) compounded by the variability of layouts this work is not yet feasible in an fully automated fashion.
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Automatically recognizing historical climate data entries
BlueGreen Labs closes the COBECORE project