Method for analyzing spatial organization of information for predicting anthropogenic impact on environment

Abstract

In the emerging ecological crisis, there are no analysis methods enabling to assess the degree of environmental hazard from a unified position. Moreover, when new characteristics are obtained, the idea of the phenomenon under study can radically change. The article considers the method of informological analysis based on the study of the structure of the spatial organization of information in urbanized territories. In the course of the study, it was shown that the information field formed by natural objects and the technosphere interact with each other in such a way that they form their internally organized information space. The information field inside is estimated according to the results of production control over technological parameters of an enterprise. According to its state inside the object, zones of information intensity of the object itself are identified, and external feature fields contribute to describing the impact of an individual enterprise on the environment of territories limited by the size of each feature information field. The latter is the initial element of the mechanism for transforming information of an industrial facility situated at a larger space, which may include interconnected objects of the industry structure, cover zones of characteristic environmental changes not only within the location of an industrial territorial unit but also outside it. In these zones, fields of information interaction being the factors of environmental hazard although often not taken into account by traditional methods of analysis can generate. A probabilistic-theoretical model of the message source for calculating the entropy state of space is proposed, which allows describing the characteristic features of the influence of an object on the environment of the territories. A specific example shows its fundamental applicability to studying information aspects of phenomena of various nature, using entropy to identify important properties of the process under study with an unknown model. Further development of the method can be used in various ways for determining environmental hazard factors, which include spaces that form around objects and have a direct or indirect impact on the environment on a local, regional and global scale.