Sleuth World

Contact: Andrew Crooks, Sarah Wise, or Mark Coletti

This model shows a basic urban growth model based loosely on the SLEUTH model. In the sense, that we have only implemented the four growth rules (spontaneous, new spreading centers, edge and road-influenced growth) and not the self modification element of the SLEUTH model. The model demonstrates how different layers (e.g. slope, land use, exclusion, urban extent - urbanized or non-urbanized, transportation, hillshade) can be read into a model to provide cells with multiple values. The model shows a specific growth scenario under specific coefficients (parameters) for Santa Fe, New Mexico.