A GIS plug-in for Bayesian belief networks: Towards a transparent software framework to assess and visualise uncertainties in ecosystem service mapping

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 71, Issue , 2015, Pages 30-38

  Landuyt, Dries ^a,b   Van der Biest, Katrien ^c   Broekx, Steven ^b   Staes, Jan ^c   Meire, Patrick ^c   Goethals, Peter L M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

BBN; Decision support; ES; Spatial modelling; Uncertainty analysis; Uncertainty maps

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; EINSTEINIUM; MAPPING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCOUNTING METHODS; BBN; DECISION SUPPORTS; REGIONAL MODELLING; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL MODELLING; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODELS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GIS; HETEROGENEITY; MAPPING METHOD; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84931269452     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.05.002     Document Type: Article

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