Examining lacunarity approaches in comparison with fractal and spatial autocorrelation techniques for urban mapping

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 927-937

  Myint, Soe W ^a   Lam, Nina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODES; FRACTALS; PRISMS; TRIANGULATION;

FRACTAL TRIANGULAR PRISM; LACUNARITY APPROACHES; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION; URBAN MAPPING;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

AUTOCORRELATION; CLASSIFICATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; MAPPING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 33746336973     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.71.8.927     Document Type: Article

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