Installation

FRAGSTATS installation is quick and easy (hopefully). After downloading the fragstats.zip file, simply double click on the file and Winzip should open (if you don’t have Winzip or another file compression utility that can unzip files, you will need to download Winzip from the web). In Winzip, simply click on the “install” button and follow the onscreen instructions. Alternatively, you can extract the zipped files to a folder and click on the setup.exe file and follow the instructions; however, this approach will not automatically delete the installation files after the installation is complete. Once installed, FRAGSTATS is run by double clicking your mouse on the Fragstats.exe file. However, if you are using FRAGSTATS with Arc Grids, then ArcView Spatial Analyst or ArcGIS must be installed on your computer and FRAGSTATS must have access to the dll libraries found in the ArcView Bin32 or ArcGIS Bin directory. Specifically, the Fragstats.exe file must either be located and run from the same directory as the dll libraries (not the best option) or a path to the dll libraries must be specified in your environmental variables (preferable) or in the autoexec.bat file. For detailed instructions on installing Fragstats for use with ArcGrids, see the discussion on Overview--Data Formats.