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| Author(s): |
de Senna Carneiro, Tiago Garcia
[1]
;
de Andrade, Pedro Ribeiro
[2]
;
Camara, Gilberto
[3]
;
Vieira Monteiro, Antonio Miguel
[3]
;
Pereira, Rodrigo Reis
[1]
Total Authors: 5
|
| Affiliation: | [1] Fed Univ Ouro Preto UFOP, Earth Syst Simulat Lab TerraLAB, BR-35900000 Ouro Preto, MG - Brazil
[2] Natl Inst Space Res INPE, Earth Syst Sci Ctr CCST, BR-12227001 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP - Brazil
[3] Natl Inst Space Res INPE, Image Proc Div DPI, BR-12227001 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 3
|
| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE; v. 46, p. 104-117, AUG 2013. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 9 |
| Abstract | |
Modeling interactions between social and natural systems is a hard task. It involves collecting data, building up a conceptual approach, implementing, calibrating, simulating, validating, and possibly repeating these steps again and again. There are different conceptual approaches proposed in the literature to tackle this problem. However, for complex problems it is better to combine different approaches, giving rise to a need for flexible and extensible frameworks for modeling nature-society interactions. In this paper we present TerraME, an open source toolbox that supports multi-paradigm and multi-scale modeling of coupled human-environmental systems. It enables models that combine agent-based, cellular automata, system dynamics, and discrete event simulation paradigms. TerraME has a GIS interface for managing real-world geospatial data and uses Lua, an expressive scripting language. (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 08/58112-0 - Land use change in Amazonia: institutional analysis and modeling at multiple temporal and spatial scales |
| Grantee: | Maria Isabel Sobral Escada |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Program on Global Climate Change - Thematic Grants |