Spatial Arrangement

Indices Of Arrangement

At the scale of the study area: “the structure”

Indices of structure at the level of the objects

Indices of structure at the level of the categories / classes of objects

Indices of structure at the level of the whole study area

At the scale of the neighborhood: “the texture”

Principles of the contextual analysis

Indices of central tendency

Indices of variability

Indices of texture of first order

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Spatial Arrangement

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In order to account for the complexity to describe the way in which the properties of a discontinuous phenomenon are distributed in space, many indices of spatial arrangement come to supplement the knowledge provided by the indices of spatial dependency. If the latter stressed the dependency of the thematic properties compared to the spatial proximity, the indices of arrangement try to account for the way in which the spatial objects are distributed in the study area.