I. INTRODUCTION

II. OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS

III. THE COSMIC STRING SIGNAL  
A. Modelling the signal  
B. Generating Temperature Maps

IV. BACKGROUND NOISE  
A. Modelling the Signal  
B. Generating Noise Temperature Maps

V. INTEGRAL GEOMETRY AND MINKOWSKI FUNCTIONALS  
B. Functionals of Noise

VI. RESULTS  
A. Functionals of Cosmic Strings  
C. Functionals of Cosmic Strings Embedded in Noise

VII. SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK