Fractals and the accuracy of geographical measures

Journal of the International Association for Mathematical Geology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1980, Pages 85-98

  Goodchild, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fractals; map analysis; spatial distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0019091538     PISSN: 00205958     EISSN: 15738868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01035241     Document Type: Article

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