Landscape descriptors in fifteen urban green spaces of a southern temperate city

The dataset contains landscape metrics for circular buffer areas of increasing radius (250, 500, and 1000 m) around each of 15 sampling sites. landscape metrics were calculated using Fragstats (McGarigal et al<i>.</i> 2012; http://www.umass.edu/landeco/research/fragstats/fragstats.html). Sampling sites were urban green spaces located in Córdoba city, Argentina. Land cover characteristics were assessed for the three circular buffer areas around each sampling site using Google Earth and Sentinel 2 images (December 14, 2016; spatial resolution 10 m). The land-use categories considered were: <i>Built surface, Open vegetation </i>(mostly grasses and low growth)<i>, Closed vegetation </i>(mostly trees) and <i>Water bodies</i>. We calculated landscape metrics using two levels of spatial heterogeneity hierarchy: landscape level metrics and class level metrics. These metrics provide information about landscape and patch class fragmentation, interspersion and aggregation (see details in read me file).