Calculating the Wasserstein Metric-Based Boltzmann Entropy of a Landscape Mosaic.

ABSTRACT: Shannon entropy is currently the most popular method for quantifying the disorder or information of a spatial data set such as a landscape pattern and a cartographic map. However, its drawback when applied to spatial data is also well documented; it is incapable of capturing configurational disorder. In addition, it has been recently criticized to be thermodynamically irrelevant. Therefore, Boltzmann entropy was revisited, and methods have been developed for its calculation with landscape patterns. The latest method was developed based on the Wasserstein metric. This method incorporates spatial repetitiveness, leading to a Wasserstein metric-based Boltzmann entropy that is capable of capturing the configurational disorder of a landscape mosaic. However, the numerical work required to calcu

SUBMITTER: Zhang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7516855 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature