Quantifying and Analysing Neighbourhood Characteristics Supporting Urban Land-Use Modelling

  • Henning Sten Hansen
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Abstract

Land-use modelling and spatial scenarios have gained increased attention as a means to meet the challenge of reducing uncertainty in the spatial planning and decision-making. Several organisations have developed software for land-use modelling. Many of the recent modelling efforts incorporate cellular automata (CA) to accomplish spatially explicit land-use change modelling. Spatial interaction between neighbour land-uses is an important component in urban cellular automata. Nevertheless, this component is calibrated through trial-and-error estimation. The aim of the current research project has been to quantify and analyse land-use neighbourhood characteristics and impart useful information for cell based land-use modelling. The results of our research is a major step forward, because we have estimated rules for neighbourhood interaction from really observed land-use changes at a yearly basis. This higher temporal granularity gives a more realistic foundation for estimating neighbourhood interaction rules to be applied in for example land-use cellular automata.

Keywords

cellular automata land use modelling spatial patterns spatial planning 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Henning Sten Hansen
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  1. 1.Department of Development and Planning National Environmental Research InstituteAalborg UniversityDK-9200 Aalborg East

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