[GRASS-user] Land cover change and forecasting

[Micha Silver]

Thanks to all for the quick responses.

------ Original Message ------ Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Land cover 
change and forecasting Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 16:20:25 +0100 To: Grass 
User List From: Paulo Van Breugel
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>
> On 07-12-16 15:45, Anna Petrášová wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Moritz Lennert
>> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>>> On 07/12/16 15:21, Micha Silver wrote:
>>>> I am looking for a FOSS GIS alternative to the IDRISI "Land Change
>>>> Modeler". The LCM both analyses change between two input land cover
>>>> classification maps, and forecasts land cover for a chosen future time
>>>> with various simulation models.
>>>> The GRASS addon r.change.info seems to have many options for
>>>> investigating land cover change between some input categorical 
>>>> rasters,
>>>> but I can't find any module or addon for predicting land cover at a
>>>> future time.
>>>>
>>>> Are there some modules or addons that I have missed? Any other FOSS
>>>> image analysis software I should be looking at?
>>>
>>> Have you had a look at the r.futures suite:
>>>
The r.futures addon, as Anna mentioned, seems to be specifically fitted 
to the case of urban expansion. Our research focuses on protected areas, 
and forecasting land cover under stress of climate change.

>>> https://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/addons/r.futures.html
>> Yes, this one projects urban growth, so 2 classes. Then, there is an 
>> R package:
>> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lulcc/lulcc.pdf
>>
>> Anna
>
Good idea, I'll have a look. Thanks

> Also have a look at the r.randomforest addon for GRASS GIS
Can I ask for some guidance how randomforests could help here? Do you 
refer to the regression mode of RF?


>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> Moritz
>>> _______________________________________________

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