Characterizing the Spatio-Temporal Variations of Urban Growth with Multifractal Spectra.

Entropy (Basel) · 2023 · PMC10453168 · PMID 37628156

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Overall, Δ D decreases, indicating a decreasing trend in spatial heterogeneity within the study areas.

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When the index does not exhibit a clear trend or shows a weak trend, outliers can be intuitively identified using the mean and standard deviation, corresponding to significant expansion in marginal areas.

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