Quality estimation of lime stones for print paper coating materials by image instrumentation

Author

Kawahara, Yohei ; Kirimoto, Kenta ; Matsunaga, Ken Taro ; Ogata, Sumitoshi

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. Sci. & Syst. Eng., Kyushu Inst. of Technol., Iizuka, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

5-7 Aug. 2002

Firstpage

1365

Abstract

The present study aims to obtain a measure to evaluate the quality of raw limestone. As a macroscopic approach, we employ a remotely sensed satellite image with high spatial resolution which provides a birds-eye view of the limestone mine and spectral properties of the naked limestone rocks surface. The second approach uses a commercial digital camera and we attempt to grade the sample limestone samples materials of different quality for screening the limestone powders used as coating materials for printing papers. The statistical quantities on the sample images and their fractal dimensions are applied for the evaluation of the quality.

Keywords

automatic optical inspection; fractals; image processing; minerals; remote sensing; fractal dimension; image sensor; limestone mine; limestone powder; printing papers; quality evaluation; remote sensing; satellite image; spatial resolution; Coatings; Digital cameras; Instruments; Optical reflection; Optical surface waves; Raw materials; Satellites; Soil; Spatial resolution; Vegetation mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE 2002. Proceedings of the 41st SICE Annual Conference

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7631-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICE.2002.1195392

Filename

1195392