lsm_l_mutinf function

MUTINF (landscape level)

Mutual information [I(y,x)]

lsm_l_mutinf(landscape, neighbourhood = 4, ordered = TRUE, base = "log2")

Arguments

• landscape: A categorical raster object: SpatRaster; Raster* Layer, Stack, Brick; stars or a list of SpatRasters.
• neighbourhood: The number of directions in which cell adjacencies are considered as neighbours: 4 (rook's case) or 8 (queen's case). The default is 4.
• ordered: The type of pairs considered. Either ordered (TRUE) or unordered (FALSE). The default is TRUE.
• base: The unit in which entropy is measured. The default is "log2", which compute entropy in "bits". "log" and "log10" can be also used.

Returns

tibble

Details

It disambiguates landscape pattern types characterize by the same value of an overall complexity (lsm_l_joinent).

Examples

landscape <- terra::rast(landscapemetrics::landscape)
lsm_l_mutinf(landscape)

References

Nowosad J., TF Stepinski. 2019. Information theory as a consistent framework for quantification and classification of landscape patterns. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00830-x

See Also

lsm_l_ent, lsm_l_condent, lsm_l_joinent, lsm_l_relmutinf