Introduction:

The Land Use Scanner (in Dutch: Ruimtescanner) is a framework for Land Use change modelling. The Land Use Scanner has been used for various spatial planning projects.

Keywords:

• Netherlands scale: 500 meter grid level (approximately 193.000 cells) or 100 meter grid level (approximately 3.300.000 cells)
• Land use classes for urban, nature, argicultural and water
• Claims at several regional levels (corop, province, agricultural region)
• Double constrained land use model, based on random utility theory and discrete allocation, based on combinatoric optimization of land use
• Maps, Tables

Allocation methods

1. a logit based model to calculate probabilities of future Land Use.This method uses an Iterative Proportional Fitting procedure to make the allocated Land Use fit with the given regional Land Use claims.
2. a discrete allocation method that generates an allocation with maximum total suitability within the constraints of the regional Land Use claims.This method uses a scaling algorithm for the Semi Assignment Problem.

Student Edition:

A Student Edition of the Ruimtescanner can now be downloaded here.

Projects:

The Ruimtescanner is recently used in the following projects:

• GESO
• NL later
• Land Use Allocation in Zuid-Holland (MNP / Provincie Zuid-Holland, 2005)
• Validatie Ruimtescanner (MNP / VU, 2005)
• Ruimtelijke Beelden
• EUClueScanner

Links:

• Lumos consortium website
• VU/FEWEB/Spinlab website. Contains Land Use Change And Simulation project descriptions & publications

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