A revisitation of the triangular prism surface area method for estimating the fractal dimension of fractal surfaces

Annali di Geofisica

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 811-819

  De Santis, Angelo ^a   Fedi, Maurizio ^b   Quarta, Tatiana ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Self affinity; Self similarity; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTAL SURFACE; TRIANGULATION;

EID: 0031410861     PISSN: 03652556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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