Three categories of metrics

Metrics can also be divided into 3 categories that reflect what they measure (Baskent and Jordan, 1995). These are:

Linear measures which are concerned with features like boundary length, width, shape and connectivity.
Areal measures which examine features like patch size, shape and interior.
Topological measures which examine the spatial relationships between landscape elements and therefore look at things like dispersion, association, interspersion, isolation and connectivity.

	Applying measures
Which of the landscape measures and metrics above would be most helpful in studying a) patches b) corridors c) matrix