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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298366703321

Autore

Heilbronner Renée

Titolo

Image Analysis in Earth Sciences : Microstructures and Textures of Earth Materials / / by Renée Heilbronner, Steve Barrett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-642-10343-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (520 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences

Disciplina

550.28

550/.28

550/.28/5

Soggetti

Mineralogy

Earth sciences

Earth Sciences, general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I Looking at Images -- 1 Images and Microstructures -- 2 Acquiring Images -- 3 Digital Image Processing -- 4 Pre-processing -- Part II Segmentation: Finding and Defining the Object -- 5 Segmentation by Point Operations -- 6 Post-processing -- 7 Segmentation by Neighborhood Operations -- 8 Image Analysis -- 9 Test Images -- Part III Measuring Size and Volume -- 10 Volume Determinations -- 11 2-D Grain Size Distributions -- 12 3-D Grain Size -- 13 Fractal Grain Size Distributions -- Part IV Quantifying Shape and Orientation -- 14 Particle Fabrics -- 15 Surface Fabrics -- 16 Strain Fabrics -- 17 Shape Descriptors -- Part V Spatial Relationships -- 18 Spatial Distributions -- 19 Spatial Frequencies -- 20 Autocorrelation Function -- Part VI Orientation Imaging -- 21 Crystal Orientation and Interference Color -- 22 Computer-Integrated Polarization Microscopy -- 23 Orientation and Misorientation Imaging -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Image Analysis in Earth Sciences is a graduate level textbook for researchers and students interested in the quantitative microstructure and texture analysis of earth materials. Methods of analysis and



applications are introduced using carefully worked examples. The input images are typically derived from earth materials, acquired at a wide range of scales, through digital photography, light and electron microscopy. The book focuses on image acquisition, pre- and post-processing, on the extraction of objects (segmentation), the analysis of volumes and grain size distributions, on shape fabric analysis (particle and surface fabrics) and the analysis of the frequency domain (FFT and ACF). The last chapters are dedicated to the analysis of crystallographic fabrics and orientation imaging. Throughout the book the free software Image SXM is used.