# Chloe - Landscape metrics QGIS Plugin

## About Chloe
The **Chloe QGIS Plugin** is a processing algorithm provider for QGIS. It enables the uses of the **Chloe** software from QGIS. 

The [Chloe software](https://www6.rennes.inra.fr/sad/Outils-Produits/Outils-informatiques/Chloe) is a freeware of multi-scales analysis available under the CeCILL user licence and is based on the principle of counting invented by Bruce Milnes (American Naturalist).

The Chloe software is part of the APILand library and conceptually improved by the French research network INRA PAYOTE about landscape modelling and environmental process.

The Chloe software is designed by Jacques Baudry and Hugues Boussard and maintained by Hugues Boussard.

## About the plugin
The plugin embeds a runnable version of the Chloe software as a jar program. Call the Chloe program are done through command line calls.

The code of the plugin is licensed under the GPL v3 licence.
The source code of the plugin is available on [github](https://github.com/hboussard/chloe_qgis). 

The implementation of the QGIS plugin "Chloe - landscape metrics" has been done by [Alkante](https://www.alkante.com). 
## Financers
The QGIS plugin "Chloe - landscape metrics" has been financed by ACE Nouvelle Aquitaine, UR C.A.U.E Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Nouvelle Aquitaine region and its prefecture, and Europe.

Special thanks to Yannick Coulaud.
