Extraction of characteristic points and its fractal reconstruction for terrain profile data

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1732-1743

  Chen, Ching Ju ^a   Lee, Tzong Yeang ^b   Huang, Y M ^a   Lai, Fu Jou ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b LEADER UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; EXTRACTION; FRACTALS; INTERPOLATION; LANDFORMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURVEYING;

CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EVALUATION FACTOR; EXTRACTION OF CHARACTERISTICS; FRACTAL INTERPOLATION; IMAGE MEASUREMENTS; LINEAR CHARACTERISTICS; SIMPLIFICATION METHOD;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 63449103221     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2007.06.074     Document Type: Article

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