Fractal dimension of coastline of Australia

Akhlaq Husain; Jaideep Reddy; Deepika Bisht; Mohammad Sajid

doi:10.1038/s41598-021-85405-0

Scientific Reports (Mar 2021)

Fractal dimension of coastline of Australia

Akhlaq Husain,
Jaideep Reddy,
Deepika Bisht,
Mohammad Sajid

Affiliations

Akhlaq Husain: Department of Applied Sciences, BML Munjal University
Jaideep Reddy: School of Engineering and Technology, BML Munjal University
Deepika Bisht: School of Engineering and Technology, BML Munjal University
Mohammad Sajid: Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Qassim University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85405-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Abstract 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.

Published in Scientific Reports

ISSN: 2045-2322 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine; Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/srep/

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