Original scientific paper

Entropy and Evolution of Landscape

Mirjanka Lechthaler ; Institut für Kartographie und Reproduktionstechnik, Technische Universität Wien, Wien, Österreich

Abstract

This paper investigates the relation between the two definition of landscape entropy: The one – according to general thermodynamic principles on the base of the complete analogy between relief altitude in a landscape and temperature in an isobaric system, the other – based on the Boltzmann or Shannon respectively probability formula (Theory of Information), calculating the statistical probability of the presence of various relief heights. Both entropy definition describes the landscape as a system in evolution, whose entropy increases. The high mountain as the "young" areas with high activity has a lower entropy that the plain "old-age" region with less activity.

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Hrčak ID:

292461

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/292461

Publication date:

30.6.1993.

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