momepy.circular_compactness

momepy.circular_compactness(geometry)

Calculates the circular compactness of each object given its geometry.

\[area \over \textit{area of enclosing circle}\]

Adapted from [Dibble et al., 2017].

Parameters:

geometryGeoDataFrame | GeoSeries

A GeoDataFrame or GeoSeries containing polygons to analyse.

Returns:

Series

Examples

>>> path = momepy.datasets.get_path("bubenec")
>>> buildings = geopandas.read_file(path, layer="buildings")
>>> momepy.circular_compactness(buildings)
0      0.572145
1      0.390417
2      0.588332
3      0.520411
4      0.591297
        ...
139    0.563433
140    0.525733
141    0.404872
142    0.530405
143    0.636387
Length: 144, dtype: float64