Abstract:
The Land Use Evolution and Impact Assessment Model (LEAM) is a computer-based tool that simulates land-use changes across space and time. LEAM urban land-use transformation modeling begins with drivers, those forces (typically human) that contribute to land-use change. Model drivers represent the dynamic interactions between the urban system and the surrounding landscape. Each driver is developed ... as a contextually independent sub-model which allows for calibration before being run simultaneously in the LEAM model. Environmental, economic and social system impacts of alternative scenarios such as different land-use policies, growth trends, and unexpected events can be tested out in the LEAM modeling environment. Scenario results and impact assessments can be displayed in a number of ways: as simulation movies, through a built-in mapping tool, in graph or chart displays, or simply as raw data. LEAM's visual representation of each scenario's outcome provides an intuitive means of understanding the potential of decisions and acts as a catalyst for discussion and communal decision-making.
All driver models figure into creating the development probability model, while the impact models respond to the land use change that is triggered by the development probability model. Impacts assessed by the LEAM model are also used in the creation of sustainable indices and indicators that can feed back into the model drivers for new policy formation.
[Summary provided by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Urban and Regional Planning.]
Originators:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Title:
Land Use Evolution and Impact Assessment Model
Provider:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Urban and Regional Planning
URL:
http://www.leam.illinois.edu/leam
Access Constraints
Login access is required for various parts of the site including read and write permission for the directories and files. Please contact the LEAM group for more information.
Name:
UI-UC DEPARTMENT OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
Phone:
217-333-3890
Email:
urbplan at illinois.edu
Contact Address:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
310 Noble Hall
1209 South Fourth Street MC-549 City:
Champaign
Province or State:
Illinois
Postal Code:
61820
Country:
USA
Distribution Media
Distribution_Media:
Online
Fees:
No fees
Personnel
LAND USE EVOLUTION AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODEL (LEAM) GROUP Role:
TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone:
217-333-5172
Fax:
217-244-1717
Email:
deal at uiuc.edu
Contact Address:
111 Temple Buell Hall
611 Taft Drive City:
Champaign
Province or State:
IL
Postal Code:
61820
Country:
USA
TYLER
B.
STEVENS Role:
SERF AUTHOR
Phone:
(301) 614-6898
Fax:
301-614-5268
Email:
Tyler.B.Stevens at nasa.gov
Contact Address:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Global Change Master Directory City:
Greenbelt
Province or State:
MD
Postal Code:
20771
Country:
USA
Publications/References
Cunningham, Kevin J., Carlson, Janine L., Wingard, G. Lynn , Robinson, Edward, Wacker, Michael A., 2004, Characterization of Aquifer Heterogeneity Using Cyclostratigraphy and Geophysical Methods in the Upper Part of the Karstic Biscayne Aquifer, Southeastern Florida, USGS Water Resources Investigations Report, 03-4208, Tallahassee, FL, U.S. Geological Survey. ... http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/aq_heterogeneity/index.html
Cunningham, Kevin J., Wacker, Michael A. Robinson, Edward Gefvert, Cynthia J. Krupa, Steven L., 2004, Hydrogeology and Ground-Water Flow at Levee 31N, Miami-Dade County, Florida, July 2003 to May 2004, Scientific Investigations Map, I-2846, Reston VA, U.S. Geolgoical Survey. http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/sim/I-2846
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Dunham, R. J., 1962, Classification of carbonate rocks according to depositional textures, AAPG Memoir, 1, Tulsa, OK, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), in Classification of Carbonate Rocks, Ham, W. E., ed.
Embry, A. F., Klovan, J. E., 1971, A late Devonian reef tract on Northeastern Banks Island, N. W. T., Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, v. 19, n. 4, Calgary, Canada, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists.
Lucia, F. J., 1995, Rock-fabric/petrophysical classification of carbonate pore space for reservoir characterization, AAPG Bulletin, v. 79, n. 9, Tulsa, OK, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG).
Geological Society of America, 1991, Rock color chart: Baltimore, MD, Munsell color, Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America.
Paillet, F. L., 2000, A field technique for estimating aquifer parameters using flow log data, Ground Water, v. 38, n. 4, Westerville, OH, National Ground Water Association.
Poag, C. W., 1981, Ecologic atlas of benthic foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico, New York, NY, Academic Press.
Rose, P. R., Lidz, Barbara, 977, Diagnostic foraminiferal assemblages of shallow-water modern environments: South Florida and the Bahamas, Miami, FL, University of Miami, Florida.
Creation and Review Dates
SERF Creation Date:
2010-09-10
SERF Last Revision Date:
2012-10-16
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