Evaluation of pedodiversity and land use diversity in terms of the Shannon Entropy

TL;DR

This paper assesses soil and land use diversity using Shannon entropy, exploring their spatial and compositional variations, and introduces a method to quantify their relationship through mutual entropy.

Contribution

It proposes a novel approach to evaluate the connection between soil and land use diversity using mutual entropy.

Findings

Soil and land use diversity can be effectively measured with Shannon entropy.

A new method to estimate the relationship between soil and land use diversity was developed.

The mutual entropy provides insights into the connection between soil and land use diversity.

Abstract

Recently, the Shannon entropy, which was introduced originally as a measure of information amount, has been widely used as a useful index of various diversities such as biodiversity and geodiversity. In this work we have evaluated the diversity of soil and land use, in both composition distributions and spatial distributions, in terms of the Shanonn entropy. Moreover we have also proposed how to estimate the connection between the diversity of soil and land use in the spatial distribution using mutual entropy, and carried out the estimation of its connection.