Implementierung von Landschaftsstrukturmaßen zu Zersiedelung, Zerschneidung und Konnektivität in die Open-Source-Arcpy-Toolbox „Zonalmetrics“

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Contributors

  • Ulrich Walz - , Dresden University of Applied Sciences (HTW) (Author)
  • Simeon Wetzel - , Chair of Geoinformatics (Author)
  • Martin Behnisch - , Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (Author)

Abstract

This article presents the expansion of the ArcGIS toolbox ZonalMetrics (Adamczyk & Tiede 2017) by four new tools. The new tools calculate landscape metrics, with the help of which conclusions can be drawn about the fragmentation, habitat connectivity and urban sprawl of a landscape. These include the effective mesh size (meff) according to Jaeger (2000) and Moser et al. (2007), the Connectivity Index (CBIIND2_impr) according to Deslauriers et al. (2018), the proximity index (PXfg) according to Gustafson & Parker (1992) (modified) as well as urban sprawl metrics according to Jaeger & Schwick (2014). Since the tools were developed in the Python programming language, every user can view the source code. The toolbox has been adapted for ArcGIS Pro for future security. The input data can be in shape format or as a geodatabase. The metrics can be calculated for a large number of spatial units at the same time. Analyses for large areas with a large number of statistical units (e. g. administrative units) can be carried out efficiently in this way to examine current issues of landscape ecology and environmental monitoring.

Translated title of the contribution
Implementation of landscape structure measures on urban sprawl, fragmentation and connectivity into the open-source arcpy toolbox “zonalmetrics”

Details

Original languageGerman
Pages (from-to)22-37
Number of pages16
Journalgis.Science - Die Zeitschrift fur Geoinformatik
Volume2021
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-7144-3376/work/171065280

Keywords

Keywords

  • ArcGIS, Connectivity, Indicators, Landscape fragmentation, Landscape structure, Urban sprawl