A VECTORIAL METHOD FOR THE STUDY OF THE SPATIAL-DISTRIBUTION OR MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES APPLIED TO THE NEEDS OF HYDROGEOLOGY

The purpose of this computerized processing is to create a database of morphological features in vectorial form with an access by index. The file system is independent of the type and format of the initial docu ments. It allows work both with objects of various sizes and recomposi tion of maps by superposing and juxtaposing the information. A practic al example showing maps of major directions or frequencies of orientat ions by mesh, explains how heterogeneous data are linked together and managed dynamically in memory. The methodology used here, can be trans posed easily to any other type of counting, for example in order to de termine the fractal dimension of a river network.