IDEFIX

IDEFIX - Indicator Database for Scientific Exchange

Development

IDEFIX was developed within the SPIN project (Contract No. EVG2-2000-0512, founded by the 5th Framework Program of the EU).

Objective / Purpose

IDEFIX is an indicator database based on landscape metrics to support interpretation of most of the metrics available and implemented in multiple software solutions. It should make the end users more familar with the metrics and its behavior, biases, limitations, correlations and further aspects.

Author / Principal Investigator

LARG, Hermann Klug

Platform specification

IDEFIX is a stand alone program tested under the Windows operating systems 98/NT/2000/XP.

MS Access is required.

Development environment

Visual Basic 6 and MS Access.

Background and brief description / Main functions

The overall objective of IDEFIX is ...

to give an overview about existing landscape metrics (state of the art indicators).
to facilitate recherche and archive functions as well as the interpretation.
to increase awareness on the potential of structural indicators.
to contribute to standardisation and automatisation of parts of the monitoring obligations.
to determine the applicability of a metric in Natura 2000 contex.
to procure orientation and to work as a decision support system as well as acceptance and transparence.
to compare different analysis and metrics to show the possibilities, limits and behaviour of the metrics as well as their potential.
to quantify structural changes and conditions in spatial data.
to set up an appropriate selection process.

The database should support the daily tasks of the users and could help with the interpretation of results. It can also be used to develop semi-automatic procedures for indicator selection. A set of indicators is implemented in VLATE and IMT and tested in a GIS-

environment - using application buttons.

Source Code

Not available.

Status

The current version 0.5 is in an evaluation status until the SPIN project end 04/2004.

Pricing

IDEFIX is free of charge under its attached license agreement.

Related Software products

Fragstats handbook from McGarigal (2002).

Database solutions are currently not available.

Download

You can download the version 1.0 here:

Database only
Database and installation routine (including necessary COM files): part1, part2 - use e.g. 7-zip to unpack

Literature

KLUG, H., LANGANKE, T., LANG, S. (2003): IDEFIX - Integration einer Indikatorendatenbank für landscape metrics in ArcGIS 8.x. - In: S. Strobl, T. Blaschke, G. Griesebner (Hrsg.), Angewandte Geografische Informationsverarbeitung XV, S. 224-233. Salzburg

For further information please contact:

Hermann Klug

email: hermann.klug@sbg.ac.at

webpage last checked

13/04/2012