Urban Change - Integrated Modeling Environment
is a NSF-funded project with the University of California
at Santa Barbara, the United States Geological Survey and the Los Alamos National
Laboratory to develop an integrated modeling environment (IME) for the cross-disciplinary
study of a wide range of questions pertaining to urban change. The project objectives
are:
- To develop a conceptual and technical infrastructure for modeling the changing
morphology of contemporary US urban areas, at different scales, as a function
of key social and physical processes and constraints (IME-1), as well as more
general aspects of urban system dynamics for which urban morphology serves
as a key input (IME-2).
- To demonstrate and test the validity of the approach at the IME-1 level
through modeling and analyzing the growth patterns of selected metropolitan
regions.
- To demonstrate and test the validity of the approach at the IME-2 level
with a study seeking to predict land use intensity and population distribution
through coupling of several different models of physical and human processes,
including a model of urban morphology. 4. To implement and disseminate an
integrated GIS-based modeling environment (IME-1 & 2) as outlined above for
the investigation of a variety of research and policy questions pertaining
to urban structure and change.
Project Team:
Products:
Direct and Supporting
UCIME Publications
Santa Fe Launch Meeting notes
Dissemination Plan
Seminar (UCSB) - Urban Growth Modeling
(Winter, 2000)
Seminar (UCSB) - Land-Use Change Modeling
(Winter, 2001)
3D images for the Santa Barbara area - scenarios: Goleta
1997, Goleta
2050 unrestricted growth, Santa
Barbara with growth boundaries, and Santa
Barbara unrestricted growth 2050
NSF Annual Reports:
Related Projects:
Project Gigalopolis
Urban Dynamics Research Program
Urban
Research Initiative
SBGIS
Presentation and Workshop on The
Modular Modeling System by
Dr. George Leavesley.
USGS (Denver). Sponsored by the NCGIA and the UCIME project team. (pdf
file of presentation)
UCIME Research and Review Meeting - March, 2000 at UCSB:
UCIME group meeting minutes:
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Support for this project is from the National Science Foundation :
Contact the project Web Master.
Last updated: March, 2001