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To describe the spatial relationship among the earth objects compactly, in this paper, we raised the concept of histo-variogram based on the analysis of the characteristics of other spatial analyzing methods such as variogram, information entropy. And we also raised a new spatial analysis method of histogram decomposition based on the definition of standing pixel and contour pixel. At the end of this paper, we demonstrated the characteristics of histo-variogram by two experiments, one for spatial analysis, the other for image fusion.
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Zhang, H., Jiao, Z., Yang, H. et al. Research on scale effect of histogram. Sci. China Ser. D-Earth Sci. 45, 949–960 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1360/02yd9094
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