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Effects of land use classification on landscape metrics based on remote sensing and GIS Delin Liu, Shilong Hao, Xianzhao Liu, Bicheng Li, Shanfeng He D. N. Warrington Environmental Earth Sciences ISSN 1866-6280 Environ Earth Sci DOI 10.1007/s12665-012-1905-7 1 23 Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer- Verlag. This e-offprint is for personal use only and shall not be self-archived in electronic repositories. If you wish to self-archive your work, please use the accepted author’s version for posting to your own website or your institution’s repository. You may further deposit the accepted author’s version on a funder’s repository at a funder’s request, provided it is not made publicly available until 12 months after publication. 1 23 Authors personal copy Environ Earth Sci DOI 10.1007/s12665-012-1905-7 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Effects of land use classification on landscape metrics based on remote sensing and GIS Delin Liu • Shilong Hao • Xianzhao Liu • Bicheng Li • Shanfeng He • D. N. Warrington Received: 24 April 2011 / Accepted: 9 August 2012 Springer-Verlag 2012 Abstract Landscape metrics are important when study- increasing. (3) The general response patterns of most of the ing landscape structure and function. This study investi- selected landscape metrics to the changing land use clas- gated the sensitivity of two core sets of landscape metrics sification were similar among different years at both scales, to different land use classification systems by analyzing which implied that the age of the data source used to two typical landscapes at a small watershed scale and a generate the land use maps since 1982 had little effect on county