TY - JOUR
AU - Shaw, Kevin B.
AB - Various digital filters, edge detectors, histogram modification, and three-dimensional display experiments are performed on mosaicked Geologic LOng-Range Inclined Asdic (GLORIA) acoustic imagery. These experiments have the motivation of establishing Navy capability for viewing the seafloor-especially in deep water and in three dimensions, detecting objects on the seafloor, and enhancing existing monochrome GLORIA imagery. It was found that a Gaussian filter with a kernel size of 5x 5 provided subjective enhancement to the lower intensity areas while some of the other filtering techniques, e.g., difference and gradient destroyed the dynamic range of the image. Kernel sizes were found to be extremely crucial in the experiments with this imagery, especially the median filter which did provide excellent smoothing of the imagery without sacrificing the edges. The digital mosaicking performed on this particular data set of acoustic imagery was determined to introduce multiple artificial artifacts. Image analysis showed the intensities (8 bit, 0-255)to follow the classic Gaussian distribution. Histogram equalization yielded exceptional results for adding contrast (which allows the determination ofgeologicalboundaries and detection of various seafloor objects. The vector intensity profile of the intensity offered an interesting future research objective, the correlation of acoustic imagery to bathymetry, the measurement of the depth of large bodies of water.
TI - Digital filtering/enhancement/analysis of geologic long-range inclined asdic acoustic imagery
JF - Proceedings of SPIE
DO - 10.1117/12.19533
DA - 1990-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/spie/digital-filtering-enhancement-analysis-of-geologic-long-range-inclined-1qjatrs6dr
SP - 429
EP - 436
VL - 1244
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -