QGIS Plugin. Calculates distance that indicates which regions in a landscape are most similar to some ideal landscape. More about mahalanobis distance: http://www.jennessent.com/arcview/mahalanobis_description.htm

License:

Copyright (C) MahalanobisDistance, Author: Damian Harasymczuk

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Input:

• Singleband raster layers. Each layer should depict the same area.
• Mean value. A single value for each raster.

Output:

• Singleband raster layer. Size and geodata are taken from first input layer on the list (top row in the input table).

Example: Test data

Input layer #1 temperature

Input layer #2 precipitation

Find areas closest to the ideal conditions: temperature=18, precipitation=110

Result

Green areas are closest to the ideal landscape.