Exploring scaling laws in surface topography

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2373-2383

  Abedini, M J ^a   Shaghaghian, M R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; FRACTAL DIMENSION; SCALING LAWS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WATERS;

BOX-COUNTING METHOD; CLIMATIC REGIMES; COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EXPLORATORY SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGIC TIME SERIES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 67650821942     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2009.03.121     Document Type: Article

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