Fractal dimension based features are useful descriptors of leaf complexity and shape

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1301-1310

  Borkowski, Wojciech ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 0033305855     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x99-112     Document Type: Article

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