TY - GEN
T1 - Digital image processing and analysis of macroporous rock surfaces
AU - Zosel, Aaron
AU - Maclaughlin, Mary
AU - Moon, Tom
AU - Hudyma, Nick
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Digital image acquisition and processing is commonly used in a wide variety of technical fields. The technology associated with image acquisition and processing has become very affordable which allows an even greater number of applications to be developed. This paper describes an innovative use of digital image processing to determine the surface porosity of vesicular basalt. The imaging sequence involves acquiring images from the surface of a cylindrical core, unwrapping the curved images on to a two dimensional plane, correcting for the loss of information due to the unwrapping process, stitching adjacent images, and determining the surface porosity. All of the imaging sequences are performed in MATLAB® software.
AB - Digital image acquisition and processing is commonly used in a wide variety of technical fields. The technology associated with image acquisition and processing has become very affordable which allows an even greater number of applications to be developed. This paper describes an innovative use of digital image processing to determine the surface porosity of vesicular basalt. The imaging sequence involves acquiring images from the surface of a cylindrical core, unwrapping the curved images on to a two dimensional plane, correcting for the loss of information due to the unwrapping process, stitching adjacent images, and determining the surface porosity. All of the imaging sequences are performed in MATLAB® software.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84869016072&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84869016072
SN - 9781622762507
T3 - 42nd Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering Symposium and 14th Intermountain Conf. on the Environment: Geotechnics, Environment, Energy, and Economics (GE) - The Links for Sustainability
SP - 259
EP - 265
BT - 42nd Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering Symposium and 14th Intermountain Conf. on the Environment
T2 - 42nd Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering Symposium and 14th Intermountain Conference on the Environment: Geotechnics, Environment, Energy, and Economics (GE) - The Links for Sustainability
Y2 - 5 November 2009 through 6 November 2009
ER -