Analyzing landscape diversity in time: The use of Renyi's generalized entropy function

摘要: Abstract This paper analyses the use of Renyi's generalized entropy function to identify landscape temporal transformation. In order demonstrate its application we analyze recent historic diversity changes focusing on evolution boundaries between patches in town Isernia (central Italy). Firstly, three 1:25,000 land cover/vegetation raster maps (1954, 1981 and 1992) were selected. Next, measured analyzing variation extension boundary types adjacent cover categories (patches) from 1954 1992. To do this, curves for each year built compared. The major advantage applying Renyi parametric time is that profiles not display a single index. fact, family indexes shown, many which are currently applied widely used ecology.