The impact of variation in scale on the behavior of a cellular automata used for land use change modeling

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 400-408

  Pan, Ying ^a   Roth, Andreas ^b   Yu, Zhenrong ^a   Doluschitz Reiner, R ^b  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cellular automata model; Land use change; Neighborhood; North China Plain; Parameter; Scale

Indexed keywords

CA MODEL; CELL SIZE; CELLULAR AUTOMATA MODELS; DIFFERENT SCALE; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; HIGH-PRECISION; KAPPA INDEX; LAND USE CHANGE MODELING; LAND-USE CHANGE; MODEL APPLICATION; NEIGHBORHOOD SIZE; NORTH CHINA PLAIN; SCALE PARAMETER; SIZE AND SHAPE; SPATIAL EXTENT; SPATIAL SCALE; TRANSITION RULE;

AUTOMATA THEORY; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

LAND USE;

ALGORITHM; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; NEIGHBORHOOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECISION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

EID: 77955093160     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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