Land cover monitoring by fractal analysis of digital images

Geoderma

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-92

  Velázquez García, Jaime ^a   Oleschko, Klaudia ^b   Muñoz Villalobos, Jesus Arcadio ^c   Velásquez Valle, Miguel ^c   Martínez Menes, Mario ^d   Parrot, Jean Francois ^e   Korvin, Gabor ^f   Cerca, Mariano ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

^b CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Mexico)

^c Instituto Nacional de Investigacioones Forestales Agricolas y Perurarias   (Mexico)

^d Centro de Hidrociencias ^*  (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^f KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Digital imagery; Fractal Image Informatics; Hurst exponent; Land cover monitoring; Maize residues

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FRACTALS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); SOILS;

DIGITAL IMAGERY; FRACTAL IMAGES; HURST EXPONENTS; LAND COVER; MAIZE RESIDUES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ANDOSOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; DATABASE; DIGITAL IMAGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; MAIZE; MONITORING; PLANT RESIDUE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; ROUGHNESS; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL SURFACE; TILLAGE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MICHOACAN;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 78649394617     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.11.014     Document Type: Article

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