2D Self-Similar Processes with Stationary Fractional Increments

Thiswork is concernedwithnon-stationary 2D fields havingstation­ aryincrements.Theclassicalfractional Brownianmotionmodelislimitedinsome applications,sinceitisisotropicanddependsonasingleparameter(theHurstcoef­ ficient H).Weintroducehereinnewmodelsforpossiblyanisotropictextures,based onfractionalordersofdifferencingintwoorthogonaldirectionsofspace. Someof thepropertiesoffieldswithfractionalstationaryincrementsarealsodiscussed.We then focus onself-similar processes withstationary incrementsoforderoneand stresstheroleofthestructurefunctioninthestudyoftheseprocesses.