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Image analysis is the art and science of extracting information from images. Image analysis is defined not by the class of image processing operations it employs, but by the aim with which they are applied. In an image analysis process, one usually combines a number of image processing steps (see Chaps. 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7) with the aim of quantifying the features of interest – condensing the gray value and spatial information of an image matrix into a set of numbers. Depending on what we think the image ‘really means’, the ‘object(s)’ of image analysis and the methods we use may differ.
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Heilbronner, R., Barrett, S. (2014). Image Analysis. In: Image Analysis in Earth Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10343-8_8
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