Examining the satellite-detected urban land use spatial patterns using multidimensional fractal dimension indices

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5152-5172

  Wu, Hao ^a,b   Sun, Yurong ^a   Shi, Wenzhong ^b   Chen, Xiaoling ^c   Fu, Dongjie ^d  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Fractal methods; Lacunarity dimension; Remote sensing imagery; Spatial pattern; Urban land use; Wuhan

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL METHODS; LACUNARITY; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; URBAN LAND USE; WUHAN;

LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 84887546024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5105152     Document Type: Article

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