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    Automated crater detection and counting using the hough transform

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    Authors
    Galloway, M.
    Benedix, G.
    Bland, Phil
    Paxman, J.
    Towner, M.
    Tan, T.
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Galloway, M. and Benedix, G. and Bland, P. and Paxman, J. and Towner, M. and Tan, T. 2014. Automated crater detection and counting using the hough transform, in Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Oct 27-30 2014, pp. 1579-1583. Paris: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
    Source Title
    2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2014
    DOI
    10.1109/ICIP.2014.7025316
    ISBN
    9781479957514
    School
    Department of Applied Geology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6430
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    © 2014 IEEE. A manual process for detecting and counting craters on the surface of a planetary body becomes impractical when attempting to survey a large surface area. Similarly, existing automated methods that are effective for specific areas of focus are also impractical for a large data set. We report on the work completed so far in developing a crater detection system to automatically detect craters down to sub-km sizes, across a large portion of a planetary surface. Specifically, we assess the performance of a Hough Transform (HT) for the application and in particular the influence of its preprocessing edge detection phase. Tests are performed on high resolution images of the Martian surface, anticipating a large scale crater counting application for crater chronology on the surface of Mars.

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