THE FRACTAL DIMENSION OF GRAVITY DATA SETS AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR GRIDDING1

A bstract Gravity survey station locations are, in general, inhomogeneously distributed. This inevitably results in interpolation errors in the computation of a regular grid from the gravity data. The fractal dimension of the station distribution can be used to determine if an interpolated map is aliased at a specific wave‐length and, moreover, it is often possible to determine an optimum gridding interval. Synthetic distributions of gravity …