Multispectral document enhancement: ancient carbonized scrolls

Author

Ware, Gene A. ; Chabries, Douglas M. ; Christiansen, Richard W. ; Martin, Curtis E.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Eng. & Technol., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, USA

Volume

6

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

2486

Abstract

Multispectral imaging of carbonized documents has been shown to be an effective diagnostic tool as well as providing for spectral analysis and enhancement. The Herculaneum scroll diagnostic data showed that sufficient contrast could be obtained with an image at a single wavelength in the near infrared. On the other hand, the Petra scroll multispectral data demonstrates the analytical and enhancement capabilities provided by this form of document conservation and archiving

Keywords

archaeology; document image processing; image enhancement; multidimensional signal processing; text analysis; Herculaneum scroll; Petra scroll; ancient carbonized scroll; archaeology; archeology; carbonized document; enhancement; image processing; multispectral document enhancement; multispectral imaging; near infrared; spectral analysis; writing; Bandwidth; Cities and towns; Data mining; Educational institutions; Ink; Mathematics; Multispectral imaging; Optical filters; Remote sensing; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.859615

Filename

859615