Multi-Agent Models of LCLUC Dynamics in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon

Start Date: 
01/01/2006
End Date: 
01/01/2009
Project Call: 
Land-Cover Land-Use Change
Science Theme: 
Predictive Land Use Modeling
Ecosystems and Biodiversity Impacts
Observations and Data
Regional Initiative: 
Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia
Region: 
Amazon Basin
South America
Solicitation: 
LBA-05
Distribution of Project Team Members Institutions
marker Principal Investigator   marker Co-Investigator   marker Collaborator   marker Postdoc Researcher   marker Graduate Student Researcher   marker Other
Team members: 
Person Name Person role on project Affiliation
Stephen Walsh Principal Investigator University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, US


Abstract: 

Generate LCLU simulations based upon actual conditions observed through the satellite time-series and extended in time & space through derived growth rules and neighborhood interactions. CA consists of a regular grid of cells, each of which can be in one of a finite number of K possible states, updated synchronously in discrete time steps according to a local, identical interaction rule. The state is determined by the previous states of a surrounding neighborhood of cells, and the rule is usually specified in the form of a transition function.

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