Mass fractal dimension of soil macropores using computed tomography: From the box-counting to the cube-counting algorithm

European Journal of Soil Science

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 569-579

  Perret, J S ^a   Prasher, S O ^b   Kacimov, A R ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; FLOW MODELING; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; PORE SIZE; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; FLOW MODELING; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; MACROPORE; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL WATER; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0141461765     PISSN: 13510754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2389.2003.00546.x     Document Type: Article

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