Automated condition assessment of buried sewer pipes based on digital imaging techniques

Journal of the Indian Institute of Science

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 235-252

  Iyer, Shivprakash ^a   Sinha, Sunil K ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated detection; Cracking; Curvature evaluation; Mathematical morphology; Sewer pipelines

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DETECTION; CURVATURE EVALUATION; ROBUST DEFECT ANALYSIS; SEWER PIPELINES;

CRACKS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SEWER LININGS; TELECOMMUNICATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33749862360     PISSN: 09704140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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