Environmental Modelling & Software
Remote-sensing image mining: detecting agents of land-use change in tropical forest areas
International Journal of Remote Sensing
Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling
Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling
Short communication: A generic framework for land-use modelling
Environmental Modelling & Software
Inferring urban land use using the optimised spatial reclassification kernel
Environmental Modelling & Software
A proposal for an integrated modelling framework to characterise habitat pattern
Environmental Modelling & Software
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Landscape metrics are used in a wide range of environmental studies such as land use change and land degradation studies, soil erosion and run-off predictions, management of hunting communities, and strategic planning for environmental management, to name just a few. Due to their utility for a variety of applications, there are many indices and software packages that have been designed to provide calculations and analysis of landscape structure patterns in categorical maps. With the purpose of making a comparison between the most used tools (Fragstats, V-Late, PA4...), this paper examines their advantages and disadvantages in order to create a list of common features that need to be incorporated into this type of software. An Application Programming Interface (API) is produced without limitations on data input, that is capable of calculating vector or raster metrics and is extensible. This API should make it possible not only to build third party applications easily, but also make it possible to add new metrics and research into new paradigms related to traditional landscape metrics. Land-metrics DIY (Do It Yourself) is the library presented in this paper. It can calculate almost 40 landscape metrics from geometry provided by an ESRI Shapefile.