Application of ArcGIS in fractal analysis of rivers

Author

Yue, Wenhui ; Yu, Bailang ; Wu, Jianping

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Geographic Inf. Sci., East China Normal Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2011

fDate

24-26 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Geographic Information System (GIS) not only has the function of managing geographic information and processing graphics, but also can resolve the problems of complex spatial analysis, spatial simulation and spatial decision-making. Geographic fractal research, whether measuring fractal dimension or simulating fractal structure, is a rule and complicated process. Some popular GIS software has many spatial analysis modules, but lacks the function of spatial fractal analysis. Based on the GIS software, developing spatial fractal analysis module has broad applied prospect and practical value. This article is about researching for method of developing fractal analysis module in ArcGIS software, calculating fractal-dimension by box-counting and processing some elementary researches on fractal characteristic of rivers with this module. This module is developed in ArcGIS 9.3 software by using VBA programming language.

Keywords

Visual BASIC; decision making; fractals; geographic information systems; geophysical techniques; geophysics computing; rivers; ArcGIS 9.3 software; VBA programming language; complex spatial analysis; fractal characteristics; fractal dimension; fractal structure; geographic fractal research; geographic information system; processing graphics; rivers; spatial analysis modules; spatial decision-making; spatial fractal analysis module; spatial simulation; Analytical models; Fractals; Geographic Information Systems; Geography; Presses; Rivers; Software; Fractal; Geographic Information System (GIS); Rivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoinformatics, 2011 19th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

2161-024X

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-849-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GeoInformatics.2011.5980960

Filename

5980960