momepy.square_compactness

momepy.square_compactness(geometry)

Calculates the square compactness of each object given its geometry.

\[\begin{equation*} \left(\frac{4 \sqrt{area}}{perimeter}\right) ^ 2 \end{equation*}\]

Adapted from [Feliciotti, 2018].

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.square_compactness(buildings)
0      0.619387
1      0.182604
2      0.887750
3      0.719750
4      0.894034
        ...
139    0.940666
140    0.824085
141    0.647576
142    0.914813
143    0.999961
Length: 144, dtype: float64