Unified Imaging Approach for Measuring Aggregate Angularity and Texture

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 273-280

  Masad, Eyad ^a   Button, Joe W ^b  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; TEXTURES;

EROSION-DILATION MORPHOLOGIC OPERATIONS; FINE AGGREGATES;

ASPHALT PAVEMENTS;

EID: 0033728568     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0885-9507.00191     Document Type: Article

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