Abstract
To examine the environmental composition of landscape matrix in urban fringe upland and hill areas, matrix segments were extracted and classified, by using multi-resolution segmentation of object-based image analysis. Then, the nestedness of landscape elements in matrix segment types were analyzed based on their composition in segments. As a result, the matrix types which were occurred by the urbanization including former agricultural environments, such as secondary forests and grasslands, have high tendency of landscape nestedness, and it was assumed that there exist the changing pattern of landscape nestedness along the environmental gradient from urban areas to surrounding agricultural suburban areas.
