Curvilinear structure enhancement and detection in geophysical images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 6 PART 1, 2011, Pages 2040-2048

  Panagiotakis, Costas ^a,b   Kokinou, Eleni ^a   Sarris, Apostolos ^c  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Filtering; geophysical prospection; image analysis; rotation invariant; scale invariant

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE; ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURE; CURVILINEAR STRUCTURES; FILTERING; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTION; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; LINE STRUCTURES; LINEAR PATTERNS; RELIABLE PERFORMANCE; ROTATION INVARIANT; SCALE INVARIANT; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES; SYNTHETIC IMAGES;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); GEOPHYSICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; ROTATION;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CUTTING; DETECTION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PIXEL; ROTATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 79957663276     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2102042     Document Type: Article

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