Fractals and the accuracy of geographical measures

Goodchild. (1980). Fractals and the accuracy of geographical measures.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1980

DOI

10.1007/bf01035241

DOI registrant

Springer Nature

Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01035241

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Domain-specific

• Coastline Paradox
  • Geomorphology — the home: river-network and drainage lengths, drainage-basin perimeters, glacier-terminus positions, and landslide-boundary lengths are all ruler-dependent, so practice reports a measurement scale alongside the figure. Cartography and GIS — digitized national-border lengths vary sharply with source-data resolution (the CIA Factbook and other sources report different lengths for the same border for exactly this reason)

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    “In the case of qualitative maps, all three are shown to be related to Mandelbrot's fractional dimension D (Mandelbrot, 1977) which allows the dependence of each on sampling density to be predicted.”

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