Understanding the Scale and Resolution Effects in Remote Sensing and GIS

The fractal method is relatively new and appears to have a great potential in detecting scale and resolution effects, thus offering a good alternative to the first three methods. The fractal model could play an important role in detecting the scale and resolution effects in remote sensing and GIS. A study of the scale and resolution effects on remotely sensed images using fractals by the author shows that the fractal dimension of images changes consistently with image resolution, suggesting the potential of using fractals to identify the operational scale of the phenomenon and assess the scale effects. The fractal method has been suggested as an alternative to this problem, and it is based on the changes in fractal dimension values and selfsimilarity ranges across scales and resolutions to reveal the scale and resolution effects.