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Impacts of Global Change on the Water Cycle in the Elbe Region - Risks and Options

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Land Use Scanner

Model Description:
The Land Use Scanner integrates projections of land use claims from	Model structure
external sectoral models to allocate changes of land use and land	Developer
cover on a grid. Driving forces for spatial allocation of land use	References
change are formulated in terms of local suitability based on a large	Role within GLOWA-Elbe
digital and geographic data base. It was developed as operational	Model results
tool for the integrated development of future land use patterns.

Input Data: Current land cover, topography, crop yield potential, distances to infrastructure and land uses, spatial planning maps, past and future development of GDP and population, housing market

Results: Maps of future land use and land cover

Resolution: Temporal simulation step: 1 time step for the target year / Spatial resolution: 250m (changes to coarser spatial resolutions are possible within the model)

Operating system: Windows platforms

Programming language: The software to run the Land Use Scanner model is the Data and Model Server (DMS) that is written in C++ and Delphi.

Model run time: Approx. 20 minutes for the 250m resolution and 150 iterations for each scenario

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