LecoS - A QGIS plugin for automated landscape ecology analysis
Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Ecology, Statistics
- Keywords
- landscape ecology, QGIS, landscape metrics, automation, Python, GIS
- Copyright
- © 2013 Jung
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Cite this article
- 2013. LecoS - A QGIS plugin for automated landscape ecology analysis. PeerJ PrePrints 1:e116v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.116v1
Abstract
The quantification of landscape structures is an important part in many ecological analysis dealing with GIS derived satellite data. This paper introduces a new free and open-source tool for conducting landscape ecology analysis. LecoS is able to compute a variety of basic and advanced landscape metrics in an automatized way by iterating through an optional provided vector layer. It is integrated into the QGIS processing framework and can thus be used as a stand-alone tool or within bigger complex models.