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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.
  

(Haines-Young and Chopping, 1996)

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

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