Spatial configuration

In landscape ecology, spatial configuration describes the spatial pattern of patches in a landscape. Most traditional spatial configuration measurements take into account aspects of patches within the landscape, including patches' size, shape, density, connectivity and fractal dimension. Other measurements are pixel-based, such as contagion and lacunarity. Together with spatial composition, spatial configuration is a basic component of landscape heterogeneity indices.{{cite journal |author=Gustafson, E.J. |title=Quantifying landscape spatial pattern: what is the state of the art? |journal=Ecosystems |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=143–156 |year=1998 |doi= 10.1007/s100219900011|citeseerx=10.1.1.499.6965 |s2cid=17816289 }}