Quadratic self-correlation: An improved method for computing local fractal dimension in remote sensing imagery

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 60, Issue , 2013, Pages 142-155

  Silvetti, Andrea F ^a,b   Delrieux, Claudio A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

^b not available   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Fractional Brownian motion; Hurst coefficient; Image segmentation; Local fractal dimension; Remote sensing; Triangular prism

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; HURST COEFFICIENT; LOCAL FRACTAL DIMENSION; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY; SELF CORRELATION; SYNTHETIC IMAGES; TRIANGULAR PRISM; UNSUPERVISED IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

BROWNIAN MOTION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGERY; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84882796980     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2013.06.008     Document Type: Article

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