Entropy | |
Entropy of the Land Parcel Mosaic as a Measure of the Degree of Urbanization | |
Agnieszka Bitner1  Marcin Fialkowski2  | |
[1] Department of Agricultural Land Surveying, Cadaster and Photogrammetry, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Balicka 253A, 30-198 Krakow, Poland;Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland; | |
关键词: urbanization; land parcel; land division pattern; city growth; spatial analysis; Shannon entropy; | |
DOI : 10.3390/e23050543 | |
来源: DOAJ |
【 摘 要 】
Quantifying the urbanization level is an essential yet challenging task in urban studies because of the high complexity of this phenomenon. The urbanization degree has been estimated using a variety of social, economic, and spatial measures. Among the spatial characteristics, the Shannon entropy of the landscape pattern has recently been intensively explored as one of the most effective urbanization indexes. Here, we introduce a new measure of the spatial entropy of land that characterizes its parcel mosaic, the structure resulting from the division of land into cadastral parcels. We calculate the entropies of the parcel areas’ distribution function in different portions of the urban systems. We have established that the Shannon and Renyi entropies
【 授权许可】
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