Information Content

We are calculating the information content (entropy) of a map a different scales using GRASS
and an "awk" script we wrote. Has anyone done something like this ?

Nadim Farajalla
GIS & Env. Modeling Lab
University of Oklahoma

nadim@chief.ecn.uoknor.edu (nadim@chief.ecn.uoknor.edu) writes on 15 Apr 93:

We are calculating the information content (entropy) of a map a different scales using GRASS
and an "awk" script we wrote. Has anyone done something like this ?

you may look at i.texture, which is based on

@article{haralick73,
   author = {Robert M. Haralick and K. Shanmugam and Its'hak Dinstein},
   journal = {IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybertinetics},
   month = nov,
   number = 6,
   pages = {610--620},
   title = {Textural Features for Image Classification},
   volume = {SMC-3},
   year = 1973
}

--Darrell