Quantitative spore colour measurement using colour image analysis

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 139-149

  Yule, B ^a   Roberts, S ^a   Marshall, J E A ^a   Milton, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colour image analysis; RGB (red, green, blue) pixel intensities; Spore colour; Spore thermal cracking; Thermal maturity

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PETROLOGY; ROCKS;

COLOR IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPORE THERMAL CRACKING; THERMAL MATURITY;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0032499056     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(97)00125-3     Document Type: Article

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