Methods and Techniques for Fractal Analysis of Environmental Systems

Biophysical Chemistry of Fractal Structures and Processes in Environmental Systems

Volumn 11, Issue , 2008, Pages 69-110

  Bushell, Graeme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM); Environmental system fractal dimension; Fractal analysis methods and techniques; Fractal dimension and small angle scattering; Image processing algorithms; Rayleigh Gans Debye (RGD) formalism; RGD scattering approximation; True fractal scaling; Turbidity fluctuation measurement

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

CONFOCAL SCANNING LASER MICROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FRACTAL SCALING; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; RAYLEIGH-GANS; SCATTERING APPROXIMATION; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 84948420682     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470511206.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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