AN ATTEMPT TO CHARACTERIZE HEDGEROW LATTICE BY MEANS OF FRACTAL GEOMETRY

The bocage landscape has evolved very radically during the last fifty years with the agricultural developement. The shapes of the hedgerow lattice have many consequences for example, in hydrological or ecological functions of this landscape. So we attempt to characterize the network structure by means of fractal geometry. The box-counting method permits to get significantly different results to analyse this structure with fractal parameters (dimension, upper and lower cuts off). Combining them with other parameters, we plan to model the functionning of this landscape.