## NAME

r.li.renyi

## DESCRIPTION

r.li.renyi calculates the "renyi's diversity index" as:
with:

- H: Renyi entropy
- alpha: order of the generalized entropy
- i: ith class
- S: number of classes
- pi: proportion of the landscape occupied by class i

## NOTES

Do not use absolute path names for output files. They are raster if moving window disposition was selected, otherwise they are in `~/.r.li/output/` folder.
If the input raster contains NULL value cells, r.li.renyi returns -1 for these cells.
If you want to keep NULL values instead, run subsequently on the resulting map:

    r.null setnull=-1 map=my_map

## EXAMPLES

To calculate Renyi's diversity index on map "my_map", using the previously created "my_conf" configuration file (r.li.setup) and saving results in "my_out" raster map, run:

    r.li.renyi map=my_map conf=my_conf output=my_out alpha=0.6

## NOTES

Do not use absolute path names for output files. They are raster if moving window disposition was selected, otherwise they are in ~/.r.li/output folder.
If input raster is full of null values r.li.renyi returns -1.
If you want to have null values instead run

    r.null setnull=-1 map=my_map

after index calculation.

## REFERENCES

McGarigal, K., and B. J. Marks. 1995. FRAGSTATS: spatial pattern analysis program for quantifying landscape structure. USDA For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-351. (PDF)

## SEE ALSO

r.li, r.li.setup

## AUTHORS

Luca Delucchi and Duccio Rocchini, Fondazione E. Mach (Italy), based on the r.li.shannon code developed by Serena Pallecchi student of Computer Science University of Pisa (Italy).

Last changed: $Date: 2010-11-24 17:49:21 +0100 (Wed, 24 Nov 2010) $

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