Indicators

The Indicators Computational Code Library (or indicator library) is a set of processing routines, that implement a set of indicators both quantifying land degradation processes and land restoration action effects. Indicators are selected from the set of biophysical, climate, and socio-economic indicators identified in WP2 for the Mediterranean area and from WP3 on the local scale in the ERLLs/pilot areas. 

The library implements the computation of standardized indicators in the LanDS, aimed to provide quantitative metrics supporting analysis and comparisons across different spatial and temporal scales. For the Mediterranean area, a list of 56 indicators have been implemented and computed starting from biophysical, climate, and socio-economic datasets compiled for the whole Mediterranean area in WP2. These datasets are based on global repositories and sound literature providing gridded data at different spatial and temporal resolutions (e.g., ISIMIP protocol 3, ESACCI, Yang et al., 2019, Wang and Sun, 2023), covering past and future periods (see Section 2 of D4.2 LanDS Prototype for more details). 

The code library is structured as a Jupiter notebook, a web environment where is possible to integrate Python code with rich text description and interactive visualization. The code library is available in the LanDS software repository hosted on Gitlab and released under the latest version of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

For more information, please refer to Deliverable D4.3 LanDS Toolbox.