Image analysis of soil micromorphology: Feature extraction, segmentation, and quality inference

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2004, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 902-912

  Maragos, Petros ^a   Sofou, Anastasia ^a   Stamou, Giorgos B ^a   Tzouvaras, Vassilis ^a   Papatheodorou, Efimia ^b   Stamou, George P ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Geometric feature extraction; Morphological segmentation; Multiscale texture analysis; Neurofuzzy quality inference; Soilsection image analysis

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY;

GEOMETRIC FEATURE EXTRACTION; MORPHOLOGICAL SEGMENTATION; MULTISCALE TEXTURE ANALYSIS; SOILSECTION IMAGE ANALYSIS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 4043124778     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865704402054     Document Type: Article

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