Fractal dimension of coastline of Australia

Coastlines are irregular in nature having (random) fractal geometry and are formed by various natural activities. Fractal dimension is a measure of degree of geometric irregularity present in the coastline. A novel multicore parallel processing algorithm is presented to calculate the fractal dimensi...

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Published inScientific reports Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 6304 - 10
Main Authors Husain, Akhlaq, Reddy, Jaideep, Bisht, Deepika, Sajid, Mohammad
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group UK 18.03.2021
Nature Publishing Group
Nature Portfolio
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639/705/1042
639/705/117
639/705/794
704/2151/215
704/2151/2809
Algorithms
Computer applications
Fractals
Humanities and Social Sciences
multidisciplinary
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Australia
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ISSN2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI10.1038/s41598-021-85405-0

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Summary:Coastlines are irregular in nature having (random) fractal geometry and are formed by various natural activities. Fractal dimension is a measure of degree of geometric irregularity present in the coastline. A novel multicore parallel processing algorithm is presented to calculate the fractal dimension of coastline of Australia. The reliability of the coastline length of Australia is addressed by recovering the power law from our computational results. For simulations, the algorithm is implemented on a parallel computer for multi-core processing using the QGIS software, R -programming language and Python codes.
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ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-021-85405-0