Multifractal earth topography

This paper shows how modern ideas of scaling can be used to model topography with various morphologies and also to accurately characterize topography over wide ranges of scales. Our argument is divided in two parts. We first survey the main topographic models and show that they are based on convolut...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: J.-S. Gagnon, S. Lovejoy, D. Schertzer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2006-01-01
Series:Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
Online Access:http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/13/541/2006/npg-13-541-2006.pdf