A method to analyse neighbourhood characteristics of land use patterns
| Autor: | Peter H. Verburg, Kor de Jong, Ton de Nijs, Jan R Ritsema van Eck, Hans Visser |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Cellular automata
Neighbourhood interaction Geography Planning and Development Microbiology Modelling Microbiologie Urban planning Urbanization Land use land-use change and forestry Neighbourhood (mathematics) Land use change General Environmental Science Driving factors Laboratorium voor Bodemkunde en geologie Land use business.industry Ecological Modeling Environmental resource management The Netherlands Laboratory of Soil Science and Geology PE&RC Grid Cellular automaton Urban Studies Geography business Cartography |
| Zdroj: | Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 28 (2004) 6 Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 28(6), 667-690 |
| ISSN: | 0198-9715 |
| Popis: | Neighbourhood interactions between land use types are often included in the spatially explicit analysis of land use change. Especially in the context of urban growth, neighbourhood interactions are often addressed both in theories for urban development and in dynamic models of (urban) land use change. Neighbourhood interactions are one of the main driving factors in a large group of land use change models based on cellular automata (CA). This paper introduces a method to analyse the neighbourhood characteristics of land use. For every location in a rectangular grid the enrichment of the neighbourhood by specific land use types is studied. An application of the method for the Netherlands indicates that different land use types have clearly distinct neighbourhood characteristics. Land use conversions can be explained, for a large part, by the occurrence of land uses in the neighbourhood. The neighbourhood characterization introduced in this paper can help to further unravel the processes of land use change allocation and assist in the definition of transition rules for cellular automata and other land use change models. |
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