Landuse Planning

The decisions we make today will have long-lasting impacts on our way of life. Smart choices are critical if we are going to achieve sustainable growth. Clark Labs' technologies offer a set of support tools that are particularly well-suited for resource allocation decisions.

IDRISI Taiga offers innovative decision support tools including multi-criteria and multi-objective evaluation techniques as well as tools for uncertainty management, providing decision makers unprecedented power and control over their choices.

The integrated Land Change Modeler vertical application (also available separately as an extension to ArcGIS) provides a feature-rich environment for land analysis, planning and prediction. It is currently being utilized for REDD (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) projects.

Other land planning tools include GEOMOD for landuse simulation and artificial neural networks, as well as a host of statistical modeling tools such as logistical and multi-logistical regression.

Application areas include:

• Land change analysis and prediction
• Smart growth planning
• Natural resource evaluation
• Landuse decision support
• Impact analysis

Analytical Examples: [click images to enlarge]

Land Change Modeler provides a set of tools for the rapid assessment and mapping of change, allowing for one-click evaluations of land cover gains and losses, net change and persistence, both in map and graphical form.

Land Change Modeler provides a biological corridor planning tool that considers habitat suitability, suitability for development, conservation value and protection status. User inputs include the target width and the number of connective branches.

GEOMOD is a land change simulation modeling tool. It predicts the locations where land is likely to change from one category to another. In combination with the IDRISI statistical modules, such as ROC and VALIDATE, these tools allow users to measure the certainty of scenarios of future land change.

IDRISI includes an unparalleled suite of tools for multi-objective / multi-criteria decision support. Tools such as consensus weighting procedures and heuristics, as in this image, allow for the evaluation and allocation of land for multi-objective planning.