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Describing Landscape Pattern. Landscape Metrics: FRAGSTATS. Landscape Metrics: FRAGSTATS. Landscape Metrics: FRAGSTATS. Data Formats. Two basic formats for storing map information: Vector: most common for GIS data Raster: all digital imagery is collected in this format.
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Data Formats • Two basic formats for storing map information: • Vector: most common for GIS data • Raster: all digital imagery is collected in this format. • Expect to encounter both in the Landscape Ecology literature
Grain and Extent: What is most appropriate for any given study?
Effect of changing grain and extent Turner et al. 1989
Binary random landscape Effect of changing grain and extent Turner et al. 1989