A Buffering Based Method for Fractal Dimension of a Line Feature

Fractal dimension is one of key concepts in fractal geometry,and is used as a statistical quantity that gives an indication of the complexity of a fractal or how completely a fractal appears to fill space.Many methods have so far been developed for the calculation of fractal dimension.We propose a new method based on a series of buffering operation.There-fore it is named a buffering based method.In fact,the method is performed well through an experiment,and it is easily implemented by GIS software,e.g.,Arcview.