A spatial form of diversity

  • Authors:
  • Christophe Claramunt

  • Affiliations:
  • Naval Academy Research Institute, Lanvéoc-Poulmic, Brest Naval, France

  • Venue:
  • COSIT'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Spatial Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2005

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Information theory has long provided a mathematical framework for statistically evaluating the diversity a given signal is able to produce. This paper applies information theory to multi-dimensional spaces, discusses the limits of conventional measures of diversity, and introduces a spatial component into the measure of diversity. This leads to a spatial form of diversity that provides a novel way to study spatial structures where categories and distances are amongst key factors in the analysis. The approach is exemplified with spatial configuration samples.