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T1 Partial validation of cellular automata based model simulations of urban  growth: an approach to assessing factor influence using spatial methods
A1 Barreira González, Pablo
A1 Aguilera Benavente, Francisco Israel
A1 Gómez Delgado, Montserrat
K1 Cellular automata models
K1 Urban growth
K1 Partial validation
K1 Map comparison
K1 Frequency maps
K1 Geografía
K1 Geography
AB Cellular Automata (CA) based models have a high aptitude to reproduce the characteristics of urban processes and are useful to explore future scenarios. However, validation of their results poses a major challenge due to the absence of real future data with which to compare them. Apartial validation applied to a CA-based model for the Madrid Region (Spain) is presented as aproposal for determining the influence of given factors on the results and testing their spatialvariability. Several simulations of the model were computed by different combinations of factors,and results were compared using flexible map comparison methods in order to study spatialpattern matches and similarities between them. Main and total effects of these factors werecalculated for each method, by applying a simplified Global Sensitivity Analysis approach.Frequency maps showing the most frequent cells with changed land use in the results weregenerated.
SN 1364-8152
YR 2015
FD 2015-03-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/36010
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/36010
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
DS MINDS@UW
RD 19-abr-2024