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Area roughness parameters


Shv(c) (Mean hill volume)

Segmentation

Watershed algorithm

The watershed algorithm is employed to partition regions, which are used in the calculation of feature parameters.
Water is poured into the surface landscape, and it runs along the surface shape and reaches the pit. Upon continuing to pour water, the water surfaces of water filling different pits make contact with each other. The set of these contact points is the ridge line that partitions the dale region. The same approach can be applied to the hill region by vertically inverting the process.

Wolf pruning

Peaks and pits merely need to be higher or lower that other points in their respective neighborhoods. For this reason, a surface with fine asperity can have a vast number of peaks and pits. Applying the watershed algorithm to such surfaces can result in meticulous segmentation into minute hill and dale regions. In order to suppress this over-segmentation, the Wolf pruning method is used to remove regions below a certain height/depth threshold.
The threshold is provided as a percentage of the maximum height (Sz) of the surface. The default value is 5%.


Find from the parameter list

Height Sa (arithmetical mean height)
Sz (Maximum height)
Sq (Root mean square height)
Ssk (Skewness)
Sku (Kurtosis)
Sp (Maximum peak height)
Sv (Maximum pit height)
Spatial Sal (Auto-correlation length) / Str (Texture aspect ratio)
Std* (Texture direction)
Hybrid Sdq (Root mean square gradient)
Sdr (Developed interfacial area ratio)
Functional Smr(c) (Areal material ratio)
Smc(mr) (Inverse areal material ratio)
Sk (Core roughness depth)
Spk (Reduced peak height)
Svk (reduced dale height)
Smr (Peak material portion)
Smr2 (Valley material portion (percentage of the measurement area that comprises the deeper valley structures associated with Svk))
Sxp (Peak extreme height)
Functional volume Vvv (Dale void volume)
Vvc (Core void volume)
Vmp (Peak material volume)
Vmc (Core material volume)
Feature Spd (Density of peaks)
Spc (Arithmetic mean peak curvature)
S10z (Ten-point height)
S5p (Five-point peak height)
S5v (Five-point pit height)
Sda(c) (Mean dale area)
Sha(c) (Mean hill area)
Sdv(c) (Mean dale volume)
Shv(c) (Mean hill volume)



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