Modeling of land use/cover change
2005
Ichinose, T.(National Inst. for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan))
It was argued the difference of LUCC (Land Use/Cover Change) study stance between geographers and other field researchers, reviewing results of related study projects like LU/GEC in Japan on an international study plan of the LUCC Program established in 1996. While geographers attach greater importance to field investigation for collecting real data, and discussing LUCC mechanism, modeling studies are struggled on simulating imaginary field without examining real data. An advantage of modeling is to predict future. Joint researches using advantages of both geographers and modeling are necessary. The model development predicting LUCC started from field of urban planning based on regional metric model. System dynamics model appears today, however, it is the field where elucidation of mechanism is not enough. Then, in the field of LUCC, modeling of future prediction simulation that incorporated dynamics model as precise as modeling in natural sciences has not yet realized. At present, it is common to discuss the relations between LUCC and various factors, such as social; economic, natural indexes, as driving forces. Most of them assume temporal stability about explanatory function of Land Use/Cover ratio. However, there are a few studies indicating that temporal stability can not be applied. In addition, the author mentioned recent new attempts which introduced a concept of GA (Genetic Algorithm) and AGENT.
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