Quantifying tomb geometries in resistivity images using watershed algorithms

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1424-1436

  Elwaseif, Mehrez ^a   Slater, Lee ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Image processing; Resistivity imaging; Watershed algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING METHOD;

EGYPT;

EID: 77952548482     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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