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Quantifying landscape elements

Geographic Information Systems can take a lot of drudgery out of quantifying landscape elements but the results will only be valid if the user understands why they are using particular measures and indices.

Quantifying pattern
Types of indices
Landscape measures
Three categories of metrics
Inadequacies of indices


 

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