Minutes
UCIME Group Meeting
January 20, 1999
A. Introduction of team members:
B. Update Reports from each team member:
Background history regarding the Urban Growth Model:
Her master’s topic addresses temporal sensitivity of the urban growth model looking at the Santa Barbara data from 1943 to the present (1997). How will the model predict the present with more or less data layers and temporal data points? Points to be looked at are where to start the study (year) and the density and spacing of the data points.
She is working at the USGS with Rich Bergstrom trying to integrate more science into their decision making strategies, specifically looking at geographic, geologic and economic data to look at environmental risks causing economic lose (example – damages in Santa Cruz area from seismic activities). It is an integrated modeling problem.
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