Title :
Exploitation of the multifractality spectrum for surface discrimination
Author :
Fioravanti, Stefan0 ; Giusto, Daniele D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biophys. & Electron. Eng., Genoa Univ., Italy
Abstract :
Deals with the theory of qth-order fractal dimensions and its application to texture analysis. In particular, a novel algorithm for estimating such dimensions is proposed and its use in digital-image processing is described. Results on classical Brodatz textures are reported
Keywords :
fractals; geophysical techniques; image texture; remote sensing; algorithm; classical Brodatz texture; digital-image processing; geophysical technique; land surface optical; multifractality spectrum; qth-order fractal dimensions; remote sensing measurement image processing; surface discrimination; texture analysis; theory; Fractals; Humans; Information geometry; Merging; Probability; Rough surfaces; Statistical distributions; Surface roughness; Surface texture; Upper bound;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1993. IGARSS '93. Better Understanding of Earth Environment., International
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1240-6
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322396
