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Grey level thresholding.

Level slicing.

Contrast stretching.

Image enhancement

Lillesand and Kiefer (1994) explained the goal of image enhancement procedures is to improve the visual interpretability of any image by increasing the apparent distinction between the features in the scene. This objective is to create "new" image from the original image in order to increase the amount of information that can be visually interpreted from the data.

Enhancement operations are normally applied to image data after the appropriate restoration procedures have been performed. Noise removal, in particular, is an important precursor to most enhancements. In this study, typical image enhancement techniques are as follows:

Grey level thresholding

Grey level thresholding is a simple lookup table, which partitions the gray levels in an image into one or two categories - those below a user-selected threshold and those above. Thresholding is one of many methods for creating a binary mask for an image. Such masks are used to restrict subsequent processing to a particular region within an image.

This procedure is used to segment an input image into two classes: one for those pixels having values below an analyst- defined gray level and one for those above this value. (Lillesand and Kiefer, 1994).

Level slicing

Level slicing is an enhancement technique whereby the Digital Numbers (DN) distributed along the x-axis of an image histogram is divided into a series of analyst-specified intervals of "slices". All of DNs falling within a given interval in the input image are then displayed at a single DN in the output image (Lillesand and Kiefer, 1994).

Contrast stretching

Most satellites and airborne sensor were designed to accommodate a wide range of illumination conditions, from poorly lit arctic regions to high reflectance desert regions. Because of this, the pixel values in the majority of digital scenes occupy a relatively small portion of the possible range of image values. If the pixel values are displayed in their original form, only a small range of gray values will be used, resulting in a low contrast display on which similar features night is indistinguishable.

A contrast stretch enhancement expands the range of pixel values so that they are displayed over a fuller range of gray values. (PCI, 1997)

Generally, image display and recording devices typically operate over a range of 256 gray levels (the maximum number represent in 8-bit computer encoding). In the case of 8-bit single image, is to expand the narrow range of brightness values typically present in an output image over a wider range of gray value. The result is an output image that is designed to accentuate the contrast between features of interest to the image analyst (Lillesand and Kiefer, 1994).

The grey level or grey value indicates the brightness of a pixel. The minimum grey level is 0. The maximum grey level depends on the digitisation depth of the image. For an 8-bit-deep image it is 255. In a binary image a pixel can only take on either the value 0 or the value 255.

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