Digital image processing

Recent advances in hardware and software for digital image processing and analysis are providing exciting new opportunities in civil engineering. Not only a means to augment existing methods of analysis, this technology also opens up a large number of possibilities for significant advances in civil engineering as it is practiced today. This collection of papers outlines current and future trends in the integration of digital image processing and analysis methods. Researchers and practitioners detail digitizing techniques; digital information management; image interpretation and recognition; and morphological operations and analysis.