Ecological Processes

Table 1 Land cover types and their cost values

From: On the effects of spatial resolution on effective distance measurement in digital landscapes

Land cover types	Cost values	COST3 (%)	COST10 (%)
Forest	1	21.9	24.0
Grassland	3	3.5	2.9
Cropland	5	70.9	68.9
Bare land	10	1.1	0.5
Settlements	50	2.7	3.7
Water bodies	N/A	0.003	0.005

Note that the values of COST3 and COST10 at each row represent how much of the study area was occupied by the corresponding land cover type on the 3-m and 10-m land cover layers, respectively

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