Automated Characterization of Fission Tracks in Apatite Crystals

Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Computer Science, 2011-12

Liaison(s): Ray Donelick PhD
Advisor(s): Zachary Dodds
Students(s): Calvin Loncaric (PM), Thea Osinski, Colin O’Bryne, Leif Gaebler

Our goal is to develop an application to help geologists find and characterize fission tracks and fission track tips in apatite crystals as efficiently and reliably as possible. This involves computer vision algorithms for automatic identification, the creation of a usable human interface, accurate models for the data, and a library for storing and retrieving results.