Lacunarity analysis: A general technique for the analysis of spatial patterns
Abstract
Lacunarity analysis is a multiscaled method for describing patterns of spatial dispersion. It can be used with both binary and quantitative data in one, two, and three dimensions. Although originally developed for fractal objects, the method is more general and can be readily used to describe nonfractal and multifractal patterns. Lacunarity analysis is broadly applicable to many data sets used in the natural sciences; we illustrate its application to both geological and ecological data.
- Publication:
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Physical Review E
- Pub Date:
- May 1996
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevE.53.5461
- Bibcode:
- 1996PhRvE..53.5461P
- Keywords:
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- 07.05.Kf;
- 89.60.+x;
- 91.65.-n;
- 92.40.Fb;
- Data analysis: algorithms and implementation;
- data management;
- Mineralogy and petrology