An official website of the United States government.

This is not the current EPA website. To navigate to the current EPA website, please go to www.epa.gov. This website is historical material reflecting the EPA website as it existed on January 19, 2021. This website is no longer updated and links to external websites and some internal pages may not work. More information »

EnviroAtlas

ATtILA Toolbox

Analytical Tools Interface for Landscape Assessments (ATtILA)

ATtILA is an easy to use Esri ArcGIS toolbox created by EPA that calculates many commonly used landscape metrics. It accepts data from a broad range of sources and is equally suitable across all landscapes, from deserts to rain forests to urban areas.

Seattle landscape at sunset

Three Metric Groups are Included in the Toolbox: 

  1. Landscape characteristics: related to land cover proportions and patch metrics (e.g. percent forest cover or number and size of forest patches)
  2. Riparian characteristics: describe land cover adjacent to and near streams (e.g. percent of crop land within 30 meters of streams)
  3. Human stressors: concern population, roads, and land use practices (e.g. population change or road/stream crossings)

Download the Toolbox

ATtILA for ArcGIS requires ArcGIS 10.0, service pack 4 or later and the Spatial Analyst extension. ATtILA for ArcGIS has been tested on ArcGIS up to version 10.5.1.

ATtILA Toolbox (ZIP) (12 MB, May 2016)