Multifractal analyses of grayscale and binary soil thin section images

Fractals

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 299-309

  Zhou, H ^a,b   Perfect, E ^c   Lu, Y Z ^a   Li, B G ^a   Peng, X H ^b  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary Images; Grayscale Images; Multifractal; Soil Thin Section

Indexed keywords

BINARY IMAGES; DELTA FUNCTIONS; FRACTALS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PIXELS;

GENERALIZED DIMENSION; GRAY SCALE; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; MULTI FRACTALS; MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS; MULTIFRACTAL PARAMETERS; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; SECTION IMAGE; SOIL THIN SECTION; THIN-SECTIONS;

SOILS;

EID: 80052160692     PISSN: 0218348X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218348X11005403     Document Type: Article

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