Ht-Index for Quantifying the Fractal or Scaling Structure of Geographic Features

@inproceedings{Jiang2014HtIndexFQ,
  title={Ht-Index for Quantifying the Fractal or Scaling Structure of Geographic Features},
  author={Bin Jiang and Junjun Yin},
  year={2014}
}

• Bin Jiang, Junjun Yin
• Published 2014
• DOI:10.1080/00045608.2013.834239

Although geographic features, such as mountains and coastlines, are fractal, some studies have claimed that the fractal property is not universal. This claim, which is false, is mainly attributed to the strict definition of fractal dimension as a measure or index for characterizing the complexity of fractals. In this paper, we propose an alternative, the ht-index, to quantify the fractal or scaling structure of geographic features. A geographic feature has ht-index h if the pattern of far more… CONTINUE READING

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