Sediment density structure derived from textural analysis of cross-sectional X-radiographs

Geo-Marine Letters - Tập 16 - Trang 204-211 - 1996
R. J. Holyer1, D. K. Young1, J. C. Sandidge1, K. B. Briggs1
1Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, USA

Tóm tắt

Two image texture analysis procedures, autocorrelation and binary run length, quantify the scales, orientation, and isotropy of density fluctuations imaged in X-radiographs of sediment cross sections from the Arafura Sea (Australia) and Eckernförde Bay (Germany). Image texture-based results agree with traditional bulk methods in some cases and disagree in others. Advantages of imagebased techniques over bulk methods are nonintrusiveness of the approach and the ability to produce more detailed characterizations of the spatial variability present in sediment structure. The image texture-based parameterizations of density structure are interpreted with respect to environmental processes.

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