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Computes the windowed entropy for each band using the specified kernel centered on each input pixel. Entropy is computed as -sum(p * log2(p)), where p is the normalized probability of occurrence of the values encountered in each window.
Usage
Returns
Image.entropy(kernel)
Image
Argument
Type
Details
this:image
Image
The image for which to compute the entropy.
kernel
Kernel
A kernel specifying the window in which to compute.
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