The processing of bathythermograph data: A picture analysis approach

摘要

This paper proposes using picture processing techniques in the automatic analysis of bathythermograph records. It is shown that by treating and displaying this type of data as a digital picture a much more extensive and useful analysis is possible than with conventional techniques. A description is given of results obtained with an interactive program developed to implement such processing. This program, amongst other things, allows the operator to suppress noise, sharpen edges, enhance various structures and detect events of particular interest.