Analysis of polygonal terrain landforms on Earth and Mars through spatial point patterns

Environmetrics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 206-220

  Dutilleul, Pierre ^a,b   Haltigin, Timothy W ^a   Pollard, Wayne H ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complete randomness versus regularity; Modeling of nearest neighbor distance distributions; Polygonal terrain landforms; Randomization testing procedures; Spatial point patterns

Indexed keywords

EARTH; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORM; MARS; POLYGON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERRAIN;

EID: 65249094386     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.924     Document Type: Article

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