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Learn about and download landscapes and their landscape pattern indices, in real time

1. Understanding and Retrieving Statistical Distributions
   • Selecting based on geography, land cover classifications, and metric values
   • Viewing observed statistical distributions of selected landscape metrics
   • Downloading metric values and selected landscapes
2. Assisting Sampling Design
   • Finding and retrieving landscapes having specified criteria
   • Locating sampling plots across large areas
3. Landscape Libraries
   • Downloading sets of landscapes with known landscape characteristics
   • Accessing landscapes along predefined gradients of landscape metric values
4. View Map of the Current Data
• Determining regions where the data is in the database.