Abstract
Markov chain is one of the most widely used methods for land use change forecasting, however, it’s a non-spatial model and few papers have discussed the effects of time-duration on its performance. In this paper, we first present the primary methodologies of the Spatial-Markov model, which endows the ordinary Markov chain with spatial dimension using spatial analysis techniques, and then explore the effects of forecasting time-duration on the model’s performance. By taking Shandong province, China as a case study area, land use maps in 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010 were created using on Landsat images and then the Spatial-Markov model was developed at 1 km spatial scale. In detail, we repeatedly run the model by choosing different initial time points and the same time step (five year interval) to simulate the spatial-temporal dynamics of land use change from 1990 to 2010. The forecasting results of a single run included a stack of ratio scale images and a derived nominal scale image, χ 2 test and Kappa coefficient were adopted to evaluate their accuracy respectively. It turned out that the Spatial-Markov model could achieve very good performance for short period forecasting. For the case study, it was quite qualified for the prediction of three time steps (up to 15 years) or more within which the results had much high reliability, however, time-duration of forecasting had much significant impact on the model’s performance, the longer the forecasting duration, the lower the model’s accuracy.
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This study was supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. kzcx2-yw-224) and the “Strategic Priority Research Program – Climate Change: Carbon Budget and Relevant Issues” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. XDA05130703)
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Hou, XY., Wu, L., Lu, X. et al. Effects of Time-Duration on the Performance of the Spatial-Markov Model for Land use Change Forecasting. J Indian Soc Remote Sens 43, 287–295 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-014-0400-x
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