Windows-based software for optimising entropy-based groupings of textural data

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1552-1556

  Stewart, Lachlan K ^a,b   Kostylev, Vladmir E ^c   Orpin, Alan R ^c,d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Distribution; Entropy; EntrpoyMax; Polymodal; Statistical

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ROUTINES; COMPUTER PLATFORMS; DISTRIBUTION; ENTRPOYMAX; FINITE NUMBER; GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; GRAPHICAL PRESENTATIONS; LARGE DATASETS; OPTIMAL NUMBER; POLYMODAL; STATISTICAL; STATISTICAL ALGORITHM;

BASIC (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; WINDOWS;

ENTROPY;

ALGORITHM; ENTROPY; GEOSTATISTICS; GRAPHICAL METHOD; MATRIX; OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE; TEXTURE;

EID: 67349096337     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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