A brief approach through a CA-based model is perfect for modelling of different urban phenomena at different observation scales. SLEUTH model, situated in Project Gigalopolis, is a powerful tool for description of urban agglomeration and spatial dynamics. In this paper, new applications of this model, other methodological analyses, and sensitivity studies allow us to improve our comprehension o...

Different processes shaping land-use patterns are observed at different scales. In land-use modelling, scale can influence the measurement and quantitative description of land-use patterns and can therefore significantly impact the behaviour of model parameters that describe land-use change processes. We present results of a rigorous sensitivity analysis of a cellular urban land-usechange model...

The SLEUTH urban growth model [1] is a cellular automata model that has been widely applied throughout the geographic literature to examine the historic settlement patterns of cities and to forecast their future growth. In this research, the ability of the model to replicate historical patterns of land use is examined by calibrating the model to fit historical data with 5, 10, and 15 different ...

The global urban population is expected to grow by 2.5 billion over the next three decades, and 90% of this growth will occur in African Asian countries. Urban expansion these regions often characterised ‘informal urbanization’ whereby households self-build without planning permission contexts ambiguous, insecure or disputed property rights. Despite scale informal urbanization, it has received ...

We outline the design, prototyping, and evaluation of an immersive audio game, Sleuth: An Audio Experience. We examine related applications based on wearable computing and augmented reality technologies, and discuss the game audio design and user interaction issues. The game environment was prototyped using VRML 2.0 and Java.

Rapidly increasing urbanization in the world, especially in developing countries, let to increasing urban extents. Rapid urban growth causes to appearance many problems such as wasting environmental resources, inability of providing necessary services for citizens and unplanned growth. Urban mangers and planners need tools for understanding amount and size of future urban growths to prevent the...

urban settlements and their connectivity will be the dominant driver of global change during the twenty-first century. in an attempt to assess the effects of urban growth on available land for other uses and its associated impacts on environmental parameters, we modeled the change in the extent of gorgan city, the capital of the golestan province of iran. we used landsat tm and etm+ imagery of ...