The primary objective of this study is (1) to present a detailed description of the image
analysis methods employed in previous and current investigations by our group (see Wildenschild et al.,
2005; Culligan et al., 2004, 2006; Porter et al., 2008a,b), including recent improvements that
affect the resulting estimates and (2) to validate these methods by comparing phase distribution
and interfacial area estimates for a high precision glass bead pack and fl uid con gurations within
capillary tubes with estimates obtained from some of the more commonly used image processing
methods and software packages speci cally designed for applications to porous media.
Link to Publication in Computational Geosciences
  
Wildenschild 2007 AGU Fall Meeting presentation here
Test images are available for download here
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