The results showed that all the metrics were effective in quantifying a certain component of spatial patterns, and proved that what the metrics quantified were not a single component but the complexity of several components of spatial patterns.
Setting 36 simulated landscapes as sample space and focusing on 23 widely used landscape metrics, their effectiveness in quantifying the complexity of such spatial pattern components as number of patch types, area ratio of patch types and patch aggregation level, were analyzed with the application of the multivariate linear regression analysis method.
Using specialty alumina (i.e., high-purity aluminum oxide with tailored impurity composition) as our prototype, we describe here a set of practical maps and metrics that are useful in quantifying various microstructural features that are associated with abnormal grain growth.
The use of remote sensing combined with spatial analysis and landscape metrics was the key in quantifying the spatial and temporal dynamics of tanglehead spread in the landscape between 2008 and 2014.
These metrics are evaluated for their utility and appropriateness in quantifying NW phase connectivity within porous media.
Although various metrics have been developed attempting to quantify glare, a major obstacle in quantifying discomfort glare is the difficulty in analyzing complex lighting distributions due to the dynamic nature of daylight (Hirning et al., 2014).
We found a significantly higher complexity in unimpacted and demonstration restoration sites than in channelized sites in all five dimensions except the cross section (based on the two metrics quantifying variability in the cross section).
During sustained arrhythmias, however, intrinsic heterogeneity made little difference to overall reentrant behavior, either visually, or in terms of duration, metrics quantifying filament/phase singularity dynamics, and global electrocardiogram characteristics.
This paper explores some comparatively less-utilized metrics to quantify surface gradients in a protected landscape in Central India.
