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### 中国大陆海岸线随机前分形分维及其长度不确定性探讨

1. 1. 河南大学资源与环境研究所, 开封 475004
2. 教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地河南大学黄河文明与可持续发展研究中心, 开封 475001
• 收稿日期:2014-07-03 修回日期:2014-12-18 出版日期:2015-02-10 发布日期:2015-02-10
• 作者简介:

作者简介：马建华（1959- ）,男,河南清丰人,教授,博士生导师,主要从事土壤环境污染防治、自然地理综合研究。 E-mail:mjh@henu.edu.cn

• 基金资助:
国家自然科学基金项目（41171409）;教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地重大项目（12JJD790023）;教育部和河南省共建河南大学项目（SBGJ090101）

### Random prefractal dimension and length uncertainty of the continental coastline of China

Jianhua MA1,2(), Dexin LIU1, Yanqiu CHEN1

1. 1. Institute of Natural Resources and Environment, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, Henan, China
2. Key Research Institute of Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, Henan, China
• Received:2014-07-03 Revised:2014-12-18 Online:2015-02-10 Published:2015-02-10

Abstract:

Coastline can be treated as a random prefractal object whose length is uncertain. Different lengths of the continental coastline of China were promulgated in the last century: 8000 km in 1914, 10537 km in 1935, 14000 km in the 1950s, and 18400.5 km in 1975, which has been used till now. How long is the continental coastline of China? To determine the coastline length of a country, we should calculate the scaling range and fractal dimension of the coastline first, and then measure the coastline length with the measurement scale at the lower or near the limit of the scaling range. Although many scholars investigated the fractal dimension and the length of the continental coastline of China, yet none of them identified the scale range of the coastline, which led to the results slightly inaccurate. The scaling range of the continental coastline of China on 1:500,000 map from the Google Earth Website was determined with 33 measurement scales, and the box-counting dimension was calculated automatically with the aid of ArcGIS software, while the divider dimension was calculated manually. Reliability of the length of Chinese coastline using popularly today was discussed in this paper. The results show that the scaling range of the continental coastline of China is from 400 km to 0.1 km. Within the scaling range, the box-counting dimension and the divider dimension of the coastline are 1.2004 and 1.0929, respectively. Divider dimension represents the irregularity of coastline more accurately than the box-counting dimension because the divider method is the most accurate method to measure the fractal dimension for linear geometric object. The divider dimension of the coastline south of the Hangzhou Bay is 1.2565, and that of north of the bay is 1.1204. The length of the continental coastline of China is about 21900 km when the measurement scale is 0.1 km, and 18214 km when the measurement scale is 0.25 km, which is close to the continental length of China (18400 km) used widely today. The measurement scale of 0.25 km is within the scaling range and in the vicinity of the lower scaling range limit, consequently, the current coastline length of China is accurate and acceptable. Our recommendation is that the fractal dimension of 1.2004 and measurement scale of 0.25 km should be annotated when the current coastline length of China is cited.