Modelling land-use changes using a novel vector-based geographic cellular automata

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 636-641

  Moreno, Niandry ^a,b   Marceau, Danielle J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Land use change; Raster based cellular automata; Scale sensitivity; Vector based cellular automata

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); VECTORS;

CALGARY; CELL SIZES; CELLULAR AUTOMATA MODELS; CHANGE MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL SIMPLICITIES; EXPLICIT REPRESENTATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC OBJECTS; IRREGULAR SHAPES; LAND-USE CHANGE; NEIGHBORHOOD CONFIGURATIONS; NEW APPROACHES; RASTER-BASED CELLULAR AUTOMATA; SCALE SENSITIVITY; SPACE AND TIMES; SPATIAL COMPLEXITIES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL SCALES; STUDY AREAS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 56149091528     PISSN: 10218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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