Hypothetical landscapes to evaluate connectivity metrics of protected area networks.

This repo contains the raw datasets (as GIS shapefiles) useful to evaluate connectivity metrics of protected area networks. Please suggest if additional landscapes could be added that would be useful to evaluate an additional class or characteristic of protected area networks. They were created using Google Earth Engine script: https://code.earthengine.google.com/d1a8dfa3202ac8b4e55657bd3b5a1160.

Two shapefiles are provided: (1) ProNet_connectivity_library_L1_26pa -- this contains polygons that represent the size and shape of protected areas (PAs); (2) ProNet_connectivity_library_L1_26pae -- this contains polylines that represent "edges" that do not represent any protected area but denotes that two PAs are connected. Note that these landscapes are fictitious, and represented at the global origin (i.e. 0.0 degrees latitude and 0.0 degrees longitude) -- and are quite small so zooming in will be required to see them in GIS software.