Quantifying and Analysing Neighbourhood Characteristics Supporting Urban Land-Use Modelling

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Abstract

Land-use modelling and spatial scenarios have gained increased attention as a means to meet the challenge of reducing uncertainty in the spatial planning and decision-making. Several organisations have developed software for land-use modelling. Many of the recent modelling efforts incorporate cellular automata (CA) to accomplish spatially explicit land-use change modelling. Spatial interaction between neighbour land-uses is an important component in urban cellular automata. Nevertheless, this component is calibrated through trial-and-error estimation. The aim of the current research project has been to quantify and analyse land-use neighbourhood characteristics and impart useful information for cell based land-use modelling. The results of our research is a major step forward, because we have estimated rules for neighbourhood interaction from really observed land-use changes at a yearly basis. This higher temporal granularity gives a more realistic foundation for estimating neighbourhood interaction rules to be applied in for example land-use cellular automata.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe European Information Society : Taking Geoinformation Science One Step Further
EditorsL Bernard, A Fiis Christensen, H Pundt
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2009
Pages283-299
ISBN (Print)978-3-540-78945-1
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-540-78946-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
SeriesLecture notes in geoinformation and cartography
ISSN1863-2246

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