A review of assessment methods for cellular automata models of land-use change and urban growth

X Tong, Y Feng - International Journal of Geographical Information …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Cellular automata (CA) models are in growing use for land-use change simulation and
future scenario prediction. It is necessary to conduct model assessment that reports the …

A review of driving factors, scenarios, and topics in urban land change models

Y Kim, G Newman, B Güneralp - Land, 2020 - mdpi.com
Due to the increase in future uncertainty caused by rapid environmental, societal, and
technological change, exploring multiple scenarios has become increasingly important in …

Evaluating land ecological security and examining its relationships with driving factors using GIS and generalized additive model

Y Feng, Q Yang, X Tong, L Chen - Science of the total environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Land ecological security (LES) refers to the environmental health and sustainability of the
land resources and ecosystems, which are substantially affected by biophysical and socio …

Modelling urban change with cellular automata: Contemporary issues and future research directions

Y Liu, M Batty, S Wang… - Progress in Human …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The study of land use change in urban and regional systems has been dramatically
transformed in the last four decades by the emergence and application of cellular automata …

Coupling cellular automata with area partitioning and spatiotemporal convolution for dynamic land use change simulation

Y Qian, W Xing, X Guan, T Yang, H Wu - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Urbanization processes have accelerated over recent decades, prompting efforts to model
land use change (LUC) patterns for decision support and urban planning. Cellular automata …

Dynamic land use change simulation using cellular automata with spatially nonstationary transition rules

Y Feng, X Tong - GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The dynamic relationships between land use change and its driving forces vary spatially and
can be identified by geographically weighted regression (GWR). We present a novel cellular …

Developing policy scenarios for sustainable urban growth management: A Delphi approach

S Perveen, M Kamruzzaman, T Yigitcanlar - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
In many parts of the world, a rapid urbanization process is taking place at an unprecedented
scale, and its drastic impacts on societies and the environment are evident. To combat the …

Exploring prospective urban growth trends under different economic outlooks and land-use planning scenarios: The case of Athens

D Gounaridis, I Chorianopoulos, S Koukoulas - Applied Geography, 2018 - Elsevier
Simulation modeling along with scenario analysis is a useful tool for urban planning, by
providing an appraisement of different alternatives and tradeoffs and thus contributing to …

Climate change preparedness: Comparing future urban growth and flood risk in Amsterdam and Houston

Y Kim, G Newman - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Rising sea levels and coastal population growth will increase flood risk of more people and
assets if land use changes are not planned adequately. This research examines the efficacy …

Comparison of metaheuristic cellular automata models: A case study of dynamic land use simulation in the Yangtze River Delta

Y Feng, Y Liu, X Tong - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
Cellular automata (CA) is a bottom-up modeling framework that has increasingly been
applied to simulate land use change by capturing its dynamics. Metaheuristics such as …