Spatial metrics | Abbreviation | Description |
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Core area | CA | Class area is a measure of landscape composition; specifically, how much of the landscape is comprised of a particular patch type where the range is explained by CA > 0 |
Percent of landscape | PLAND | Measures habitat extent in relative terms of the target land cover class (0 < PLAND < 100) |
Number of patches | NP | Number of patches in the landscape of the same LULC class (N ≥ 1) |
Mean patch size | MPS | It measures the average mean surface of patches and it is used to evaluate landscape fragmentation |
Interspersion and juxtaposition index | IJI | Measure of evenness of patch adjacencies equals 100 for even and approaches 0 for uneven adjacencies |
Mean near neighbor distance | MNN | Measures the degree of isolation and fragmentation of a patch |
Mean patch fractal dimension | MPFD | Measures the shape complexity. Mean fractal dimension approaches one for shapes with simple perimeters and approaches two when shapes are more complex |