The past few years have witnessed a proliferation of studies using spatial metrics to examine spatial structure of land cover change. Urban analysts are no exception, applying landscape metrics to study and model patterns of urban growth. While the majority of this research examines emerging urban structures by measuring changes in their aggregate forms, these spatial patterns are often dominat...

An increased ability to analyze landscapes in a spatial manner through the use of remote sensing leads to improved capabilities for quantifying human-induced forest fragmentation. Developments of spatially explicit methods in landscape analyses are emerging. In this paper, the image delineation software program eCognition and the spatial pattern analysis program FRAGSTATS were used to quantify ...

A major challenge in landscape and environmental modelling is to effectively visualize large amounts of time-series simulation output, often in various Geographic Information System (GIS) formats. We developed a software tool (LANDISVIEW), to easily visualize and animate time-series of ERDAS *.gis maps. The open source tool can also be used to generate batch files for FRAGSTATS, a widely used s...

Study on landscape spatial pattern in the center of Chengdu City is based on the Landsat-8 image by using 3S technique and spatial pattern analysis software Fragstats 3.3. The results showed that there covered an area of 193.92 km2 in the center of Chengdu City. 55.24% of the total area was made up of buildings, covering an area of 107.12 km2, and the overall landscape of impervious ground-base...

Based on the five-phase Landsat TM/ETM remote sensing image data, images were processed and landscape pattern indices calculated with help of ENVI FRAGSTATS software, respectively. Jian’ou city, a large agricultural city in northern Fujian Province, was used as county-scale study case to explore its changes during 20-year period from 1995 2015. The results show that development intensity increa...