| DEVELOPED | 1995-2002 |
| AUTHOR | Kevin McGarigal Department of Natural Resources Conservation University of Massachusetts 304 Holdsworth Natural Resources Center Box 34210 Amherst, MA 01003 US Email: mcgarigalk@forwild.umass.edu |
| PLATFORM | Mac, WINDOWS |
| PURPOSE | Spatial Pattern Analysis Program for Categorical Maps |
| FUNCTIONS | + Patch density + Shape metrics + Area analysis (shape, size, ...) + Nearest neighbours + Pattern diversity + Contagion and interspersion metrics + etc. |
| CODES | C codes available for the version 2. Source codes for version 3 are not available. |
| TIP | A reference in the field, plenty of material on the web site. User group |
| HOMEPAGE | Home: www.umass.edu/landeco/research/fragstats/fragstats.html A Mac version is available from ise.uoregon.edu/Fragstats2.0f/fragstats.html |