| Landscape metrics (unit) | Description |
| Class Area—CA (ha) | Class area; sum of areas of all patches belonging to a given class, in map units. |
| Number of Patches—NP | NP > 1, without limit, NP = 1 when a landscape or class type. |
| Mean Patch Size—MPS (ha) | Contains one patch, number of patches corresponding to class type at a landscape. The average area of patches corresponding to the forest cover type. Greater MPS indicate slightly fragmented forests. |
| Core Area Percentage of Landscape—CPLAND (%) | Percentage of the center of the landscape, similar to patch level core. |
| Landscape Patch Index—LPI (%) | Percentage of the landscape comprised by the largest path. |
| Patch Density—PD (Patches/100 ha) | Patches corresponding to the total forest cover divided by the total Area multiplied by 100. If forest class represents a greater PD, it indicates that it is subdivided into many patches and thus could be considered as fragmented. |
| Mean Shape Index—MSI | Shape complex measurement. The more irregular the shape, the larger the values and the closer the quadrilateral the closer it is to 1. |
| Euclidian Nearest Neighbor—ENN-MN | The average distance between patches of corresponding forest type, based on edge-to-edge distance. |