Integrated High-Resolution, Continental-Scale Land Change Forecasting.
Social Science Research Network(2022)
摘要
Predicting future land change is crucial in anticipating societal and environmental impacts and informing responses at different scales. We designed an integrated, high-resolution, land-change model and forecasted Australia's land change for the years 2020, 2025 and 2030 for Cropland, Forest, Grassland, and Built-up land-uses using cloud-based and high-performance computing. A spatially explicit set of drivers was fed into a random forest classifier to generate 30-m per-class suitability layers for the country, which were then used for allocating land-use. The model was validated against 2015 data, then land-use was projected until 2030. Accuracy at the national level was ∼94%. Forecasts showed increases in Grassland and Built-up areas and decreases in Forest and Cropland. Our modelling framework expands the current capabilities of large-scale land-change models and provides a first-of-its-kind multiclass land forecast for Australia that can inform land policy at multiple scales in Australia.
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Land-use change,Integrated model,Forecast,Random forest,Google earth engine
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