The Use of Markov Processes in Estimating Land Use Change

Résumé du livre

Extract: The ex post evaluation of the net impact of large scale public investment on land use patterns is a complex problem. the researcher must compare the land use pattern that is observed to exist following the project with an estimate of what that land use pattern would have been if the public investment had not been made, ceteris paribus. the Markov process procedure described herein is an appropriate and effective technique for handling this problem. following a complete discussion of the metholodogy and several variants thereof, an example of its use in analyzing land use changes around Keystone Reservoir in Oklahoma will be presented.