Rural information, rural amenity data, can be used for analysis of regional characteristics. But reasonable analysis of the information is quite difficult because of its abstract nature. Generally, the analysis of the qualitative data is operated with...
Rural information, rural amenity data, can be used for analysis of regional characteristics. But reasonable analysis of the information is quite difficult because of its abstract nature. Generally, the analysis of the qualitative data is operated with the results of survey or experts' assessment. It takes enormous time and effort, and doesn't make a uniform result. To overcome those problems, the Information Measuring Technique (IMT) based on information theory was developed by Jung (2003). Several researches adopt the IMT to analyze qualitative characteristics quantitatively. IMT can measure the quantity of information as numerical value. Still, IMT needs to be advanced and the way about how to improve it was discussed for more proper analysis of rural information.