A Temporal Variant-Invariant Validation Approach for Agent-based Models of Landscape Dynamics

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 161-182

  Bone, Christopher ^a   Johnson, Bart ^a   Nielsen Pincus, Max ^a   Sproles, Eric ^a   Bolte, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; COMPARISON TECHNIQUES; HUMAN-SYSTEMS; LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS; MAP COMPARISON; NATURAL SYSTEMS; REAL-WORLD; SIMULATION MODEL; UNCERTAINTY; VALIDATION APPROACH;

LAND USE;

LAND USE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MAPPING; NUMERICAL MODEL; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WILDFIRE;

OREGON; UNITED STATES; WILLAMETTE VALLEY;

EID: 84896075680     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12016     Document Type: Article

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