How to map glacier crevasses
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Hi, I have several photographs of a glacier surface (taken directly above it) and need to map the crevasses - they appear as dark lines within the image - how do i do this in MATLAB? Ideally, once i have mapped the crevasses, i need to classify them into groups dependent on their orientation and depth. I have tried doing this in ArcGIS as well as ENVI but to little avail. Might anyone know how to do this in MATLAB (or if it is even possible?) Thanks!
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Image Analyst
on 9 Feb 2016
If you have a topographic image where the pixel value is the depth, then yes. Otherwise, with a regular aerial photo, you can't get that information (in any program) unless you have some kind of intensity calibration relating the darkness to a depth.
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Image Analyst
on 9 Feb 2016
Then yes, you can threshold or use various other methods to get crevasses based on some criteria, then use regionprops() to get the orientation, average depth, etc. See my Image Segmentation Tutorial in http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/?term=authorid%3A31862
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