Announcement: All noncommercial projects registered to use Earth Engine beforeApril 15, 2025 mustverify noncommercial eligibility to maintain access. If you have not verified by September 26, 2025, your access may be on hold.
ee.Image.entropy
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. |
Except as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under theCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, and code samples are licensed under theApache 2.0 License. For details, see theGoogle Developers Site Policies. Java is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates.
Last updated 2023-10-06 UTC.