BCFD - A Visual Basic program for calculation of the fractal dimension of digitized geological image data using a box-counting technique

Geological Quarterly

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 241-248

  Verbovšek, Timotej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Box counting; Fractal dimension; Image analysis; Program; Visual Basic

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL IMAGE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL METHOD; SOFTWARE;

EID: 68949152714     PISSN: 16417291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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