Lacunarity analysis of raster datasets and 1D, 2D, and 3D point patterns

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2100-2110

  Dong, Pinliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractal; GIS; Heterogeneity; Scaling; Spatial modeling

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS; AREA OF INTEREST; BRODATZ TEXTURES; DATA SETS; DRAINAGE NETWORKS; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; GEODATABASE; GIS; HETEROGENEITY; IMAGING RADAR; LACUNARITY; LOCAL MODES; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; MULTIPLE SCALE; POINT DATASETS; POINT PATTERNS; REAL DATA SETS; SAMPLE DATA; SCALING; SPACE-BORNE; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL MODELING; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL SCALE;

FRACTALS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; RADAR IMAGING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARCVIEW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; DATABASE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GIS; HETEROGENEITY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; POLYGON; RASTER; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 70249136080     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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