Predicting Land Use and Land Cover Changes for Landscape planning: an integration of Markov chains and Cellular automata using GIS

The spatial dynamics of landscapes are the consequence of a multiplicity of relations among physical, biological and social forces. So, it is essential the assessment of the driving forces related to Land Use and Land Cover changes (LULC) to understand the change process. The stochastic modeling tec...

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Main Author: Gutierres, F. (author)
Other Authors: Godinho-Ferreira, P. (author), Reis, Eusébio (author), Neto, Carlos (author)
Format: bookPart
Language:eng
Published: 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/46871
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/46871