Handful of Landscape Metrics for ArcGIS Pro - Version 1.0

Although there are a large number of software products available for calculating landscape metrics (e.g. FRAGSTATS, landscapemetrics package in R) no tools are currently available (to my knowledge) that calculate landscape metrics directly in ArcGIS Pro. Moreover, many, if not most, landscape metrics were designed with vector data in mind, but most software calculates landscape metrics from raster data due to processing time and complexity. Scaling landscape metrics can also be tedious in some instances. This toolbox was designed to calculate attributes of patches that are easily calculated on polygons in ArcGIS (i.e. area, number of patches, Landscape Shape Index, edge density, patch size, distance to the nearest patch) and scales those calculations to coarser resolutions using Block Statistics. The tool also summarizes the relationships among metrics by using Principal Component Analysis and correlation matrices to assess relationships among variables. All variables are output to a single folder.