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Processing and analysis of digital microscopic images from the Mars Exploration Rover mission

This projest is part of Applied Computer Science Master Thesis:

Polish: "Przetwarzanie i analiza cyfrowych obrazów mikroskopowych z misji Mars Exploration Rover"

English: "Processing and analysis of digital microscopic images from the Mars Exploration Rover mission."

Author: Grzegorz Nowiński

Supervisor: dr Joanna Kozakiewicz

University: Jagiellonian University in Krakow

Faculty: Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, and Applied Computer Science

Application contained in this repository is used to detect sand particles on Microscopic Images taken by Opportunity rever during Mars Exploration Rover mission.

Application is based on PADM algorithm described in dr J. Kozakiewicz article “Image analysis algorithm for detection and measurement of martian sand grains".

Application was written in Matlab language and it contains multiple files, where bin_ui.m is the main file which will startup full GUI application.

References

J. Kozakiewicz, “Image analysis algorithm for detection and measurement of martian sand grains,” Earth Science Informatics, vol. 11, pp. 257–272, Jun 2018.