Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Urban Surface Temperature and Its Relationship with Landscape Metrics and Vegetation Cover in Rapid Urbanization Region

Table 2

List of landscape metrics [62, 66].

Level	Classification	Metrics
Landscape	Composition	Patch density (PD)
	Shape	Largest patch index (LPI)
	Spatial arrangement	Aggregation index (AI)
		Contagion (CONTAG)
		Shannon diversity index (SHDI)
		Shannon evenness index (SHEI)
Class	Composition	Percent cover of class area (PLAND)
	Shape	Edge density (ED)
		Landscape shape index (LSI)
		Mean shape index (SHAPE_MN)
		Mean fractal dimension index (FRAC_MN)
	Spatial arrangement	Landscape division index (DIVISION)