FRAGSTATS: A Free Tool for Quantifying and Evaluating Spatial Patterns
Benxin Chen and Basil V. Iannone III
Human activities such as urbanization and agriculture have triggered rapid land cover change, resulting in the loss of natural ecosystems and the ecosystem services and biodiversity that these ecosystems provide. Therefore, understanding land cover change and its environmental impacts is a key issue in future land-use planning. The first step for planning is the ability to quantify patterns of land cover objectively.
