Calibrating and Validating a Simulation Model to Identify Drivers of Urban Land Cover Change in the Baltimore, MD Metropolitan Region

We build upon much of the accumulated knowledge of the widely used SLEUTH urban land change model and offer advances. First, we use SLEUTH’s exclusion/attraction layer to identify and test different urban land cover change drivers; second, we leverage SLEUTH’s self-modification capability to incorpo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Claire Jantz, Scott Drzyzga, Michael Maret
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-09-01
Series:Land
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/3/3/1158