Is the optical image of a non-lambertian fractal surface fractal?

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 380-383

  Korvin, Gabor ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Fractal image; Fractal surface; Fractals; Lambertian reflection; Optical image

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (OPTICAL); FOCUSING; MAPPING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; REFLECTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

FRACTAL IMAGE; FRACTAL SURFACE; LAMBERTIAN REFLECTIONS; OPTICAL IMAGES;

FRACTALS;

EID: 27744495797     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2005.848531     Document Type: Article

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