Structure of ISO 25178


ISO 25178 is composed of several parts, each dealing with a metrology chain link [ISO 14638]

WD: Working draft, CD: Committee draft, DIS: Draft international standard, FDIS: Final draft international standard, IS: International standard (published), TS: Technical specification, TR: Technical report


Instruments techniques are also described in [LEACH 2011]




ISO 25178-2 is one of the most important part in this series, with the definition of basic concepts and of the areal parameters.

Height, hybrid and spatial parameters: Areal Field Parameters

Bearing ratio, volume and functional Sk parameters: Areal Functional Parameters

Motif parameters based on segmentation: Areal Feature Parameters



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