Abstract
Tools for Land-Use Modeling: Suitability, Community Values, and Population Allocation
Track: Modeling
Author
The Land Use Conflict Identification Strategy (LUCIS) is a goal driven geographic information systems (GIS) model that produces a spatial representation of where land-use suitabilities are in conflict or where one land-use type is clearly more suitable than another (Carr and Zwick 2007a). Version 1 of the LUCIS strategy, based on methods described in "Smart Land Use Analysis" (Carr and Zwick 2007b), compiles GIS Esri ModelBuilder Modules and dynamically aggregates them to obtain a GIS raster surface that spatially illustrates preferred locations of future land use. This paper will introduce the fundamental concepts behind changes in Version 1.1 of LUCIS. Version 1.1 introduces four new tools: the A4Suitability Tool, the A4Community Values Calculator Tool, the A4Raster Weighting Tool and the A4Population allocation tool. Collectively, these tools automate and iterate models for simulation procedures, reduce statistical calculations outside of the GIS environment, and improve models efficiency
Abdulnaser Arafat
University of Florida
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United States
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E-mail: naserarafat@dcp.ufl.edu
Iris Patten
University of Florida
431 Architecture Building
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611
United States
Phone: 813-205-5211
E-mail: ipatten@ufl.edu
Paul Zwick
University of Florida
431 Architecture Building
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611
United States
Phone: 352-392-0997
E-mail: pdzwick@ufl.edu