Geomorphic Analysis of the Southern Zagros Mountain Belt: Insight into a Remotely Sensed Fractal Approach
Geological processes that have acted on the Earth’s surface through cumulative influence have a consequence of forming topographic features. The Zagros is the most active collisional orogen during Cenozoic and is known as one of the largest mountain belts. Result of fractal analysis appears to bring useful information about the earth surface which is not contained in traditional morphometric measures. Fractal analysis of topographic data of Sentinel 1 DEM is used in this study as a means of characterizing landscapes. Northwestern and Southwestern parts of the study area show higher fractal dimension. Geological processes have impacted much to these relatively older and uplifted formations which are associated with enhanced erosion as compared to those having sooth topographies. Fractal dimension decreases with the direction of younging of the mountain belts trending northeast to the southwest.