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Land Art as a Big-Data Climate Sensor
Robert Smithson
climate sensingdata analysisimage processing
2609.13182
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Abstract
This paper analyzes the relationship between the land artwork Spiral Jetty and climate data, revealing that image complexity can serve as a leading indicator of hydrological state.
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Core Claim
The study demonstrates that image complexity from land art can predict lake elevation changes with significant correlation, refining the metaphor of art as a climate indicator.
Method / Result
Coarse-scale permutation entropy and mean intensity show strong correlations with lake elevation (Spearman correlations of 0.85 to 0.88).
Limitations
Shannon entropy was found to be a weak proxy for temperature, which may affect the generalizability of the findings.
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