New image processing software for analyzing object size-frequency distributions, geometry, orientation, and spatial distribution

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 539-549

  Beggan, Ciarán ^a   Hamilton, Christopher W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Nearest neighbor; Size frequency; Software; Spatial distribution; Vesicles; Volcanology

Indexed keywords

2D OBJECTS; 3D MODELS; AERIAL DISTRIBUTION; AUTOMATED METHODS; GEO-SPATIAL; GEOLOGICAL FEATURES; IMAGE ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; IMAGE-PROCESSING SOFTWARE; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; OBJECT COORDINATES; OBJECT SIZE; PSEUDO-CODE; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; RASTER DATA; SIZE-FREQUENCY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ORGANIZATION; STANDALONE APPLICATIONS; STEREOLOGY; UNIX SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATLAB; POISSON EQUATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

GEOSTATISTICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; VESICLE; VOLCANOLOGY;

EID: 77649233053     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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