The Korcak-exponent: a non-fractal descriptor for landscape patchiness

Abstract

In this short paper we introduce a proper method to perform Korcak-analysis and obtain the correct Korcak-exponent on a set of patches, embedded into two-dimensions. Both artificial and natural data sets are used for the demonstration.

The independence of the Korcak-exponent from the classical (Hausdorff) fractal dimension is also demonstrated.

Keywords

• Korcak-exponent
• non-fractal
• descriptor
• for
• landscape
• patchiness