Description: LecoS - Land cover statistics is plugin for the QGIS GIS software suite. It converts classified raster layers to arrays using the powerful numpy library. Based on a Connected Component Labeling approach it further identifies class patches and calculates landscape metrics. The use can choose to calculate single or several metrics for the raster classes.

Usecase: See http://conservationecology.wordpress.com/lecos-land-cover-statistics/

Licence: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Reference: Martin Jung, LecoS — A python plugin for automated landscape ecology analysis, Ecological Informatics, Volume 31, January 2016, Pages 18-21, ISSN 1574-9541, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2015.11.006.