1. Describing Landscape Pattern

2. Landscape Metrics: FRAGSTATS

3. Landscape Metrics: FRAGSTATS

4. Landscape Metrics: FRAGSTATS

5. 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

6. Grain and Extent: What is most appropriate for any given study?

7. Effect of changing grain and extent
Turner et al. 1989

8. Effect of changing grain and extent
Binary random landscape
Turner et al. 1989