Trr No. 1260 Pavement Design, Management And Performance., pp. 74-83 Visual examination is widely used for evaluating the extent and severity of pavement distress. The visually assessed pavement surface condition is combined with structural information to rate the pavement on the basis of scoring systems that have been developed by the state transportation agencies to evaluate which pavement s…
TRR No. 1260 Pavement Design, Management And Performance, pp. 74-83 In the previous paper in this Record, the fundamental engineering data required to design automated pavement surface distress evaluation systems were discussed; in particular, luminance values along the crack sidewalls and bottom were used to calculate the visual contrast between the crack and surrounding pavement. Image contr…
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