The normalised-optimised anisotropic wavelet coefficient (NOAWC) method: An image processing tool for multi-scale analysis of rock fabric

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 1819-1822

  Gaillot, Philippe ^a,c   Darrozes, José ^a,c   De Blanquat, Michel Saint ^a,c   Ouillon, Guy ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b CNRS and Institut de Géodynamique   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEFORMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MINERALOGY; ROCKS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MINERALS;

FLUID MIGRATION; MINERAL ORGANISATION; NORMALISED OPTIMISED ANISOTROPIC WAVELET COEFFICIENT METHOD; ROCK FABRIC ANALYSIS;

GEOPHYSICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; NORMALIZED OPTIMIZED ANISOTROPIC WAVELET COEFFICIENT; ROCK FABRIC;

FLUID MIGRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS TOOLS; IMAGE PROCESSING TOOLS; MULTI SCALE ANALYSIS; NATURAL ROCKS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SUB-POPULATIONS; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS;

EID: 0031184682     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01601     Document Type: Article

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