the patch density in the whole landscape(vector data)

This metric is based on categorical landscape in vector data format. The density is the number of patches of the whole landscape relative to the total landscape area. Then the number is standardised, so that the comparison among different landscape is possible.

vm_l_pd(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.

Examples

vm_l_pd(vector_landscape)
#> # A tibble: 1 × 5
#>   level     class id    metric value
#>   <chr>     <chr> <chr> <chr>  <dbl>
#> 1 landscape NA    NA    pd     0.333