Spatial pattern analysis software

The following software packages examine landscape pattern and how they integrate with GIS.

SPAN
HISA
RLE
FRAGSTATS
Patch Analyst

Like in other environmental modelling applications, software for the analysis of landscape pattern has largely existed separately from the GIS. However, since the early 1990s spatial pattern analysis software capable of calculating some of the common landscape metrics has been increasingly developed in association with GIS technology and some of the latest packages will run within the GIS itself.

	Applying spatial analysis
Revisit the crocodile nest case study. Would spatial analysis of landscape pattern help find suitable habitat for crocodile nests?