The Landscape Analyst is an ArcView GIS (version 3.x) 3rd party extension. ArcView extensions add more functionality to the core software.
The Landscape Analyst allows users to assess the current conditions of watersheds, counties and/or regions both visually and quantitatively. It also allows users to simulate potential impacts of future changes to the landscape. The Landscape Analyst depends on users of ArcView having the ESRI created Spatial Analyst Extension loaded on their system.
Many of the tools, models and processes in the Landscape Analyst can be performed using the core ArcView software with the Spatial Analyst extension alone but the expertise, time and complexity required to perform such actions would be prohibitive. The Landscape Analyst simplifies and organizes such specialized functions into an interface that can be used by the intermediate ArcView users to make policy decisions regarding the Earth's landscape.
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