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Please carefully read the LG user’s manual in case of questions. For further information or comments about LG please contact Maarten van Strien
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Landscape Generator
Landscape Generator (LG) is a program that generates raster maps of landscapes with a user-defined composition and configuration. Users can set target values of landscape metrics (criteria) that quantify landscape composition and configuration. These landscape metrics are comparable to the landscape metrics used in FRAGSTATS and comprise both class-level (i.e. referring to the composition or configuration of an entire land-use class) and patch-level (i.e. referring to the composition or configuration of a single land-use patch) metrics.
LG uses an optimisation algorithms to “find” landscapes of which the composition and configuration corresponds to the target values. It does so by iteratively swapping raster cells and determining whether the new landscape is an improvement with regard to the target values. For more details and information about the optimisation algorithms used in LG we refer to Slager (2011) and Slager and de Vries (2013).
Publications using Landscape Generator
- Osborne, P. E., Alvares-Sanches, T. (2019) Quantifying how landscape composition and configuration affect urban land surface temperatures using machine learning and neutral landscapes. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 76: 80-90. Download
- van Strien, M.J., Grêt-Regamey, A. (2016) How is habitat connectivity affected by settlement and road networkconfigurations? Results from simulating coupled habitat and humannetworks. Ecological Modelling, 342, 186-198 Download
- van Strien, M.J., Slager, C.T.J., de Vries, B., Grêt-Regamey, A. (2016) An improved neutral landscape model for re-creating real landscapes and generating landscape series for spatial ecological simulations. Ecology and Evolution, doi: 10.1002/ece1003.2145 Download
- Slager, C.T.J. & de Vries, B. (2013) Landscape generator: method to generate landscape configurations for spatial plan-making. Computers Environment and Urban Systems, 39, 1-11. Download
- Slager, C.T.J. (2011) Landscape generator - method to generate plausible landscape configurations for participatory spatial plan-making. Doctoral, PhD thesis, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Download