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Model Analysis: Kellogg Project
 Stuart Gage: Subproject leader
Manuel Colunga: Software and analysis development
Bryan Pijanowski: Model Development
David Skole: Human Dimensions of LUCC
  • Conduct analysis of land transformation models
    • Develop analytical methods
    • Examine high resolution time series
    • Examine change in land transformation over time
    • Link to economic databases
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Michigan Diversity
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17 (now 33) County Training Set
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Results: Future Trends
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Land Conversion
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Fragmentation
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Critical variables to assess land fragmentation
  • Composition
    • Proportional abundance of each class
    • Richness
    • Evenness
    • Diversity

  • Spatial configuration
    • Patch size distribution and density
    • Patch shape complexity
    • Core Area
    • Isolation/Proximity
    • Contrast
    • Dispersion
    • Contagion & Interspersion
    • Subdivision
    • Connectivity
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Landscape Classification
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Database Development
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Landscape and Class Variables
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Region-wide Fragmentation Variables
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Database Query
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Landscape Diversity Concept (1980)
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Land Use Fragmentation
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Percent Michigan land in key land use classes
  • Trends in land use classes
    • Built
    • Agriculture
    • Forest
    • Other Vegetation
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Kellogg Project: Model Analysis and Enhancement
Develop an analytical framework for land use information
  • Objectives
    • Implement the capacity to analyze land use by:
      • Developing a methodology to compute spatial statistics for changing land use patterns


      • Enabling an analytical framework to process digital spatial data for any area or set of areas of land use and land cover change in Michigan (Counties, Minor Civil Divisions, Census Districts; Ecological regions)
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Test Case to Demonstrate Analytical Framework
Minor Civil Divisions: Muskegon River Watershed
  • Used enhanced LTM to produce land use change projections for 75 MCD’s in the MRW


  • An analysis of built, agriculture, forest and other vegetation land use classes was conducted for each time step considering:


    • Percent of land in each class at reach time step
    • Number of patches of land in each class at each time step

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High Resolution Land Transformation
  • Questions:
    • How rapidly is land use changing?
    • Do the trends over time show patterns?
    • Are the patterns consistent with conventional wisdom?
    • Can we conduct an economic assessment of these patterns?
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Percent of a land use class in selected Minor Civil Divisions
  • MCD boundaries in the Muskegon River Watershed
  • Land use in the MRW (1980 - 2035)
  • Selected MCD’s in the MRW
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Muskegon River Watershed
LTM Projections for MCD’s 1980-2035
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Muskegon River Watershed
LTM MCD Projections
1980-2035
5 Year Increments
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Watershed-wide trends in land use change
  • 5-year time series showing built, agriculture, forest, other vegetation with respect to:
  • Percent of land
  • Number of patches
  • MCD Diversity


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Land Change Variables
    • Percent Land in Class
    • The percent of area of the polygon occupied by a specific land use class
    • Number of Patches
    • The number of polygons in a specific land use class
    • Diversity
    • The number of different classes and their distribution in a polygon
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Patterns of change in the MRW
  • Examination of change in selected MCD’s:
    • Percent of class
    • Number of patches of a class
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(Criterion: > 70% in 1980)
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(Criterion: > 75% in 1980)
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Accomplishments
  • Refined LTM projections by tuning transformation characteristics (i.e. correct issues in urban transformation (golf course; cemetery)
  • Added additional updates to land use database
  • Developed capacity to simulate shorter time steps (2020, 2040 -> 5 year intervals)
  • Developed additional analytical capacity to compute landscape fragmentation statistics
  • Demonstrated capacity of above developments
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