Multifractal imaging filtering and decomposition methods in space, Fourier frequency, and eigen domains

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 293-303

  Cheng, Qiuming ^a,b,c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; EIGENVALUE; FOURIER TRANSFORM; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; IMAGING METHOD; ORE MINERAL; SPHALERITE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHANGJIANG; YUNNAN;

EID: 34250852905     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-14-293-2007     Document Type: Article

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