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A free and open source programming library for landscape metrics calculations
Authors
A. Belda
B. Zaragozí
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Brennan
Corry
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Forman
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Gibert
Gibert
Guillemain
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Hamilton
Hebeisen
Hermosilla
J. Esparza
J. Linares
J.E. Martínez-Pérez
J.T. Navarro
Jacquin
Jiménez García
Lang
Lesschen
Lin
McGarigal
McGarigal
Molles
Musacchio
Pereira dos Santos Silva
Pichon
Porta
Ramsey
Rempel
Ruiz
Saura
Schweitzer
Simoniello
Smith
Steiniger
Thompson
Tsachalidis
Turner
van der Kwast
Vargas
Wade
Wang
Wu
Wu
Wu
Zaragozí
Publication date
1 May 2012
Publisher
'Elsevier BV'
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Abstract
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 (DoIt Yourself) is the library presented in this paper. It can calculate almost 40 landscape metrics from geometry provided by an ESRI Shapefile. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.We especially appreciate the comments and suggestions by A. Jakeman and three anonymous reviewers which led to substantial improvements of the manuscript. This paper is partially supported by the FPU - Doctoral Research Scholarship program of the "Ministerio de Educacion de Espana" (2007-2011). Moreover, we would like to thank all the FOSS community, and in particular to Diego Guidi (NTS main developer) for their interesting and important work. Of course, we also thank the OGC and all FOSS projects related to spatial information because they suppose a strategic support to the further development of our idea and other possible GIS projects.Zaragozi Zaragozi, BM.; Belda Antoli, A.; Linares Pellicer, JJ.; Martínez-Pérez, JE.; Navarro, JT.; Esparza Peidro, J. (2012). A free and open source programming library for landscape metrics calculations. Environmental Modelling and Software. 31:131-140. doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.10.009S1311403
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