Land Cover patterns and change

• Land Cover = physical material of earth at location
• Land Use = human use, such as "agriculture" or "urban"

Patch-level metrics

• Area
• Shape:
  • Perimeter-area ratio
  • Others such as ratio to circle with area of circle of radius equal to distance across

Landscape-level metrics

• patch-level metrics summarized at landscape level - statistics of all shapes, areas within a study area (landscape)
• Distance between patches, connectivity