Modeling Landscape Permeability. Anderson, M. & Clark, M. Technical Report The Nature Conservancy, January, 2012.
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Landscape permeability is a multidimensional characteristic. As part of The Nature Conservancy’s Terrestrial Resilience project, we developed two separate analytical models to assess different aspects of its local and regional nature. The first, local connectedness started with a focal cell and looked at the resistance to flows outward in all directions through the cell’s local neighborhood. The second, regional flow patterns, looked at broad east-west and north-south flow patterns across the entire region and measures how flow patterns become slowed, redirected, or channeled into concentration areas, due to the spatial arrangements of cities, towns, farms, roads, and natural land. This data documentation is taken from a larger report, “Resilient Sites for Terrestrial Conservation in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Region” which can be downloaded from: http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/ecs/documents/resilient-sites-for terrestrial-conservation

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