PyLandStats documentation!

Open-source Pythonic library to compute landscape metrics within the PyData stack (NumPy, pandas, matplotlib…)

Citation: Bosch M. 2019. “PyLandStats: An open-source Pythonic library to compute landscape metrics”. PLOS ONE, 14(12), 1-19. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225734

Development:

This documentation is intended as an API reference. See also:

  • pylandstats-notebooks repository (tutorial/thorough overview of PyLandStats)
  • swiss-urbanization repository (example application of PyLandStats to evaluate the spatiotemporal patterns of urbanization in three Swiss urban agglomerations)

Features

  • Compute pandas DataFrames of landscape metrics at the patch, class and landscape level
  • Analyze the spatiotemporal evolution of landscapes
  • Analyze landscape changes accross environmental gradients (zonal analysis)

Using PyLandStats

The easiest way to install PyLandStats is with conda:

$ conda install -c conda-forge pylandstats

which will install PyLandStats and all of its dependencies. Alternatively, you can install PyLandStats using pip:

$ pip install pylandstats

Nevertheless, note that the BufferAnalysis and SpatioTemporalBufferAnalysis classes make use of geopandas, which cannot be installed with pip. If you already have the dependencies for geopandas installed in your system, you might then install PyLandStats with the geo extras as in:

$ pip install pylandstats[geo]

and you will be able to use the BufferAnalysis and SpatioTemporalBufferAnalysis classes (without having to use conda).

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