The Impact Analysis of Water Body Landscape Pattern on Urban Heat Island: A Case Study of Wuhan City

Table 3

Landscape metrics of water and their corresponding meaning, according to the Patch Analyst Help of ArcGIS.

Landscape metrics	Meaning
Class proportion	The proportion of class
MPI	Measure of the degree of isolation and fragmentation
CA	Sum areas of all patches belonging to a given class
MPS	Average patch size
PSSD	Patch size standard deviation
TCA	The total size of disjunct core patches
MCA	The average size of disjunct core patches
CASD	Measure of variability in core area size
TCAI	Measure of amount of core area in the landscape
LPI	The LPI is equal to the percent of the total landscape that is made up by the largest patch
MCAI	The average core area per patch
IJI	Measure of patch adjacency
MNN	Measure of patch isolation