Multifractal approach for seafloor characterization

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 54-58

  Chakraborty, Bishwajit ^a   Haris, K ^a   Latha, G ^a   Maslov, Nicolas ^b   Menezes, Andrew ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b IRES   (France)

Author keywords

Multibeam backscatter and bathymetry images; multifractal; stochastic multifractal fields; strange attractor

Indexed keywords

GENERALIZED DIMENSION; MULTI FRACTALS; MULTIBEAM BACKSCATTERS; MULTIFRACTAL CHARACTERIZATION; MULTIFRACTAL FORMALISM; MULTIFRACTAL SCALING; SEAFLOOR CHARACTERIZATION; STRANGE ATTRACTORS;

BACKSCATTERING; BATHYMETRY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

FRACTALS;

EID: 84888291555     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2245856     Document Type: Article

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