Estimation of the Thermodynamic Parameters of Land Cover from Multispectral Measurements of Reflected Solar Radiation (Landsat) in Terms of Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics

This paper substantiates the use of the nonadditive statistical mechanics equipment to estimate the thermodynamic variables of an ecosystem in terms of the multispectral measurements of reflected solar radiation. The parameter q is accepted as corresponding to the Förster maximum organization condit...

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Published in:Doklady earth sciences 2019-07, Vol.487 (1), p.852-857
Main Authors: Puzachenko, Yu. G., Krenke, A. N., Puzachenko, M. Yu, Sandlerskii, R. B., Shironya, I. I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Annual variations
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth resources technology satellites
Earth Sciences
Ecosystems
Energy consumption
Energy measurement
Entropy
Entropy (Information theory)
Evapotranspiration
Exergy
Free energy
Geography
Internal energy
Land cover
Landsat
Landsat satellites
Mathematical analysis
Measurement
Mechanics
Organizations
Parameter estimation
Photosynthesis
Phytochemistry
Radiation
Remote sensing
Satellite imagery
Solar radiation
Spaceborne remote sensing
Statistical mechanics
Statistics
System theory
Systems theory
Thermodynamics
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Summary:This paper substantiates the use of the nonadditive statistical mechanics equipment to estimate the thermodynamic variables of an ecosystem in terms of the multispectral measurements of reflected solar radiation. The parameter q is accepted as corresponding to the Förster maximum organization conditions. The remote information (Landsat) has been used to calculate the entropy, Kullback information, Förster organization measure, free energy, exergy, related and internal energy, and the energy consumption for evapotranspiration and photosynthesis for the q index measured for each pixel of the satellite images. It is proved that the seasonal dynamics of the q index and the organization measure is fully consistent with the implications arising from the open nonequilibrium system theory, and the thermodynamic variables accurately reflect the current state of the ecosystem.
ISSN:1028-334X
1531-8354
DOI:10.1134/S1028334X19070262