Equivalent rectangular index(vector data) — vm_l_eri

Calculate Equivalent rectangular index (ERI)

vm_l_eri_mn(landscape)

Arguments

landscape: the input landscape image,

Value

the function returns tibble with the calculated values in column "value", this function returns also some important information such as level, class, patch id and metric name.

Details

ratio between perimeter of equal-area rectangle of shape and perimeter of shape

References

Basaraner, M., & Cetinkaya, S. (2017). Performance of shape indices and classification schemes for characterising perceptual shape complexity of building footprints in GIS. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 31(10), 1952–1977. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2017.1346257

Examples

vm_l_eri_mn(vector_landscape)
#> # A tibble: 1 × 5
#>   level     class id    metric value
#>   <chr>     <chr> <chr> <chr>  <dbl>
#> 1 landscape NA    NA    eri_mn 0.232