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348 Subject Index

Data transformation, 15 Factor analysis, 78, 123
area-to-area, 38, 41 Fault/fracture
area-to-point, 38 dilational jog, 185, 200, 299
gridding methods, 40 extension, 185
line-to-area, 38, 41 shear, 185
line-to-surface, 38 Fault/fracture density, 37
non-interpolative, 38 Fractal, 7, 24, 86
normalisation, 51 box-counting method, 88
point-to-area, 38, 41 dimension, 11, 86
point-to-surface, 38, 41 geometry, 7, 86
raster-to-vector, 38 Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension, 86,
resampling, 37 152
spatial interpolation, 39 monofractal, 92
standardisation, 58 multifractal, 92
surface-to-area, 38 number-area relation, 86
triangulation methods, 40 perimeter-area relation, 87
vector-to-raster, 38 power-law relation, 89, 92, 152, 153
Database, 15, 20 self-affine, 86
hierarchical, 32 self-similar, 86
management, 32 Frequency distribution, 9, 11
network, 32 cumulative, 165
object-oriented, 32 relative, 163
relational, 32 Fuzzy logic, 210
Digital elevation model, 42 Fuzzy membership, 211
Discrete fields, 191 Fuzzy membership functions, 212
Discrete geo-objects, 191, 217 linear, 212
Discriminant analysis, 10, 78, 293 logistic, 237
Discriminant function coefficients, 293 non-linear, 213, 214
Fuzzy set theory, 10, 210
Eigenvalue, 202
Eigenvector, 201 Geochemical
Element ratios, 10 anomaly, 9
Epithermal Au, 64 background, 9
Euclidean distance, 162 dispersion, 6
Euclidean geometry, 86 landscape, 7, 9, 11, 24
Evidence residuals, 5
binary, 194 threshold, 9
multi-class, 205 Geographic expert systems, 307
Evidential belief theory, 227, 273 Geometric correction, 37
belief, 227 Geo-objects, 5, 23, 224
disbelief, 227 definition-limited, 24, 253
plausibility, 227 discretisation of, 28
uncertainty, 227 geometry, 24