Landscape Metrics

Landscape metrics are quantitative indices that measure the spatial configuration, composition, and heterogeneity of landscape patches derived from categorical landscape data.

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Variants

Landscape Indices

Parents

Landscape Ecology

Children

Aggregation MetricsConnectivity MetricsContagion MetricsCore Area MetricsDiversity MetricsDominance MetricsEdge MetricsFragmentation MetricsIsolation MetricsLandscape Composition

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Overview of the radiometric and biophysical performance of the MODIS vegetation indices

Alfredo Huete, Kamel Didan, Tomoaki Miura et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment · 2002 · 9.6K citations

Agriculture, Ecology, Geography +14

Status of land cover classification accuracy assessment

Giles M. Foody · Remote Sensing of Environment · 2002 · 4.5K citations

Natural Resources, Earth Sciences, Geoinformatics +12

Assessing the Accuracy of Remotely Sensed Data: Principles and Practices

Giles M. Foody · The Photogrammetric Record · 2010 · 2.8K citations

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geoinformatics +10

Global land cover classification at 1 km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach

Matthew C. Hansen, Ruth DeFries, J. R. Townshend et al. · International Journal of Remote Sensing · 2000 · 2.3K citations

Natural Sciences, Geography, Physical Geography +17

Indices of landscape pattern

R. V. O’Neill, J.R. Krummel, Robert H. Gardner et al. · Landscape Ecology · 1988 · 1.6K citations

Natural Resources, Ecology, Landscape Ecology +12

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Duccio Rocchini
Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy
13 publications · 901 citations
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James Wickham
Environmental Protection Agency, United States
12 publications · 2.2K citations
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Ulrich Walz
Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, Germany
13 publications · 1.5K citations
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Jianguo Wu
Arizona State University, United States
12 publications · 3.4K citations
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Hong S. He
University of Missouri, United States
12 publications · 611 citations
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Landscape Ecology
170 publications · 21.8K citations
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Ecological Indicators
193 publications · 14.7K citations
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Landscape and Urban Planning
92 publications · 12.2K citations
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Remote Sensing of Environment
56 publications · 26.1K citations
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Remote Sensing
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See also Landscape Metrics
Core Metrics	Mean Patch Size Largest Patch Index Contagion Metrics Edge Contrast Index Core Area Metrics Euclidean Nearest Neighbor Search Patch Richness
Scale Effects	Spatial Resolution Scaling Laws Data Aggregation
Limitations	Computational Complexity
Applications	Urban Planning Environmental Planning Water Quality Environmental Impact Assessment Soil Surface Protection Broiler Environmental Management Land Cover Change Detection Sprawl Metrics Graph Metrics For Connectivity Population Structure Analysis
Computation Methods	Landscape Metrics Rolling Window Analysis Parallel Computing Cloud Computing Load Balancing Spatial Pattern Recognition