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Modelling Land use / cover changes: a comparison of conceptual approaches and softwares

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Land use/cover change (LUCC), as an important factor in global change, is a topic that has recently received considerable attention in the prospective modeling domain. There are many approaches and software packages for modeling LUCC, many of them are empirical approaches based on past LUCC such as CLUE, DINAMICA, CA_MARKOV and Land Change Modeler (both available in IDRISI). This study reviews the possibilities and the limits of these four modeling software packages. First, a revision of the methods and tools available for each model was performed, taking into account how the models carry out the different procedures involved in the modeling process: quantity of change estimate, change potential evaluation, spatial allocation of change, reproduction of temporal and spatial patterns, model evaluation and advanced modeling options. Additional considerations, such as flexibility, user friendliness, were also taken into account. Then, the four models were applied to a virtual case study to illustrate the previous descriptions with a typical LUCC scenario that consists of four processes of change (conversion of forest to two different types of crops, crop abandonment and urban sprawl) that follow different spatial patterns and are conditioned by different drivers. The outputs were compared to assess the quantity of change estimates, the change potential and the simulated prospective maps. Finally, we discussed some basic criteria to define a "good" model.

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halshs-00905375 , version 1 (19-12-2013)

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Jean-François Mas, Melanie Kolb, Martin Paegelow, Maria T. Camacho Olmedo, Thomas Houet. Modelling Land use / cover changes: a comparison of conceptual approaches and softwares. Environmental Modelling and Software, 2014, 51, pp.94-111. ⟨10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.09.010⟩. ⟨halshs-00905375⟩
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