Fragstats and Landscape

Metrics
Bill Dijak
Wildlife Biologist/GIS Specialist USDA
Forest Service
Room 309

Map Projection
UTM, Universal
Transverse Mercator.
Datum, NAD1927,
NAD1983, WGS1984.
Missouri use
NAD1983, Zone 15,
Unit meters.

Two forms of GIS data

Vector data, points lines and polygons
usually stored as a shapefile (.shp).
Raster data stored as square raster cells
or pixels.
Each raster cell has a numerical value
representing a landscape characteristic
and resolution which is the length of the
side of the raster cell.
ESRI rasters are often referred to as grids.

Examples of Raster Data

Gap landcover (MORAP)
Landsat satellite imagery
Digital elevation models (DEM)
Digital raster graphics (DRG)
Landform

Fragstats 3.3
http://www.umass.edu/landeco/research/f
ragstats/downloads/fragstats_downloads.h
tml
FragSetup33.zip

Fragstats 3.3

Click Fragstats and select Set Run

Parameters.

Class Properties File

Class ID, Class Name, Status, Is Background

1,forest,t,f
2,grassland,t,f
3,cropland,t,f
4,glade,t,f
5,water,t,f
6,urban,f,t
7,wetland,f,t

Patch Metrics
Provide metric information for each and
every patch found in the landscape
Generate an Enormous amount of
information.
Are useful for generating information for
specific locations on the landscape such as
nest locations or point count locations.
Example: An area-sensitive species selects
patches of forest of some minimum size.

Fragstats: Select Patch Metrics

Weighting tables can be created in Excel

FTABLE

0.8

0.4

0.6

0.4

0.1

0.2

0.5

0.3

0.4

0.5

But must be saved as CSV files

FTABLE,1,2,3,4
1,1,0.8,0,0.4
2,0,1,0.6,0.4
3,0.1,0.2,1,0.5
4,0.3,0.4,0.5,1
Rows represent the focal class, columns
the with class

Fragstats: Select Class metrics

Fragstats: Select Landscape Metrics

File: Save as
Saves all your parameter settings to one
file _______.frg
Can be opened and reused using
File: Open

Fragstats: Execute

Executes program using the

parameter files and generates
comma delimited files
.patch
.class
.land
These files can be imported into excel.

LID

PID

TYPE

AREA

AREA_CSD

AREA_CPS

AREA_LSD

AREA_LPS

PERIM

PERIM_CSD

C:\aaaa\elt7

74

forest

0.09

-0.8276

-0.5799

120

-1.0437

C:\aaaa\elt7

161

forest

1.44

-0.7716

1.6949

-0.5406

10.559

540

-0.9103

C:\aaaa\elt7

156

forest

1.89

-0.7529

3.3898

-0.5275

11.8012

720

-0.8532

C:\aaaa\elt7

56

forest

2.25

-0.738

5.0847

-0.5171

12.4224

1440

-0.6245

C:\aaaa\elt7

160

forest

2.97

-0.7082

6.7797

-0.4961

13.6646

900

-0.796

C:\aaaa\elt7

151

forest

3.06

-0.7044

8.4746

-0.4935

14.2857

1020

-0.7579

C:\aaaa\elt7

95

forest

3.33

-0.6932

10.1695

-0.4857

14.9068

960

-0.7769

C:\aaaa\elt7

29

forest

3.6

-0.682

11.8644

-0.4778

16.7702

1320

-0.6626

C:\aaaa\elt7

157

forest

3.6

-0.682

11.8644

-0.4778

16.7702

1080

-0.7388

C:\aaaa\elt7

152

forest

4.05

-0.6634

15.2542

-0.4647

19.2547

1140

-0.7198

C:\aaaa\elt7

162

forest

4.14

-0.6597

16.9492

-0.4621

20.4969

1380

-0.6436

C:\aaaa\elt7

33

forest

4.41

-0.6485

18.6441

-0.4543

21.7391

1620

-0.5674

C:\aaaa\elt7

148

forest

4.5

-0.6447

20.339

-0.4516

22.9814

1560

-0.5864

C:\aaaa\elt7

67

forest

4.59

-0.641

22.0339

-0.449

23.6025

1740

-0.5293

C:\aaaa\elt7

158

forest

4.59

-0.641

22.0339

-0.449

23.6025

1200

-0.7007

C:\aaaa\elt7

23

forest

5.49

-0.6037

25.4237

-0.4229

28.5714

1620

-0.5674

C:\aaaa\elt7

14

forest

5.94

-0.585

27.1186

-0.4098

32.9193

1380

-0.6436

C:\aaaa\elt7

21

forest

6.12

-0.5776

28.8136

-0.4045

34.1615

1380

-0.6436

C:\aaaa\elt7

99

forest

6.21

-0.5738

30.5085

-0.4019

35.4037

1440

-0.6245

C:\aaaa\elt7

87

forest

6.3

-0.5701

32.2034

-0.3993

37.2671

2760

-0.2054

C:\aaaa\elt7

75

forest

6.39

-0.5664

33.8983

-0.3967

38.5093

1680

-0.5483

C:\aaaa\elt7

109

forest

6.39

-0.5664

33.8983

-0.3967

38.5093

1500

-0.6055

C:\aaaa\elt7

31

forest

7.02

-0.5403

37.2881

-0.3784

39.7516

2160

-0.3959

C:\aaaa\elt7

86

forest

7.02

-0.5403

37.2881

-0.3784

39.7516

1740

-0.5293

C:\aaaa\elt7

35

forest

7.56

-0.5179

40.678

-0.3627

40.9938

1560

-0.5864

LID

TYPE

PLAND

PD

TE

ED

AREA_MN

SHAPE_MN

FRAC_MN

PARA_MN

CIRCLE_MN

C:\aaaa\elt7

water

4.159

0.368

34860

10.6895

11.3025

2.5208

1.1549

322.0433

0.8468

C:\aaaa\elt7

forest

36.8897

1.8398

179580

55.0665

20.0505

1.895

1.1031

250.8659

0.7161

C:\aaaa\elt7

grassland

35.1042

1.4105

176940

54.2569

24.887

1.9335

1.0993

263.751

0.6778

C:\aaaa\elt7

cropland

23.0026

1.2572

122760

37.6432

18.2963

1.9249

1.1007

469.1263

0.6569

C:\aaaa\elt7

glade

0.367

0.092

5700

1.7478

3.99

2.3137

1.1529

643.5029

0.703

HELP!

So, what metrics do I need?

It depends on what landscape
charateristics you believe are impacting
your species of intererst.
Most landscape scale wildlife studies are
concerned with the amount and spatial
characteristics of habitat.
Amount is is determined using pland in
the class parameter settings

Nest predation example

Patch area (Area)
Patch shape (Shape)
Patch core area index% (CAI)
Class edge density (ED)
Class habitat percentage (Pland)
Class aggregation Index (AI)

Area Sensitive Interior Species

Patch area (Area)
Patch area standard deviation (Area_CSD)
Class habitat percentage (Pland)
Class mean patch area (Area_MN)
Class patch area variation (Area_SD)
Class total core area (TCA)
Class core area percent of landscape
(CPLAND)

Population Viability
(Extinction and Recolinization)
Class habitat percentage (PLAND)
Class number of patches (NP)
Class largest patch index (LPI)
Class mean euclidean nearest neighbor
distance (ENN_MN)
Class variation in euclidean nearest
neighbor distance (ENN_SD)
Class Connectance Index (CONNECT)

Questions
Email: wdijak@fs.fed.us
Do not send email to my missouri.edu
email unless you want to wait a few days
for a response.