Landscape Simulation Modeling: A Spatially Explicit, Dynamic Approach
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 0387008357 | edition 2003 | PDF | 343 pages | 21,6 mb
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 0387008357 | edition 2003 | PDF | 343 pages | 21,6 mb
When managers and ecologists need to make decisions about the environment, they use models to simulate the dynamic systems that interest them. All management decisions affect certain landscapes over time, and those landscapes are composed of intricate webs of dynamic processes that need to be considered in relation to each other. With widespread use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), there is a growing need for complex models corporating an increasing amount of data. The open-source Spatial Modeling Environment (SME) was developed to build upon common modeling software, such as STELLA (R), and Powersim (R), among others, to create, run, analyze, and present spatial models of ecosystems, watersheds, populations, and landscapes. In this book, the creators of the Spatial Modeling Environment discuss and illustrate the uses of SME as a modeling tool for all kinds of complex spatial systems.