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CATEGORIES:Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series
SUMMARY:A multi-scale modeling approach for simulating urb
 anization in a metropolitan region - Dr Saad Salee
 m Bhatti\, University of Cambridge
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/62216
DESCRIPTION:Metropolitan regions worldwide are experiencing ra
 pid urban growth and the planners often employ pre
 diction models to forecast the future expansion fo
 r improving the land management policies and pract
 ices. These regions are a mix of urban\, peri-urba
 n and rural areas where each sector has its unique
  expansion properties. This study examines the dif
 ferences in urban and peri-urban growth characteri
 stics\, and their impact at different stages of pr
 ediction modeling\, in city district Lahore\, Paki
 stan. The analysis of multi-temporal land use/land
  cover maps revealed that the associations between
  major land transitions and the factors governing 
 land changes were unique at city district\, urban 
 and peri-urban scales. A multilayer perceptron neu
 ral network was employed for modeling urbanization
 \, and it was found that the sub-models developed 
 for urban and peri-urban subsets returned better a
 ccuracies than those produced at the city district
  scale. The prediction maps of 2021 and 2035 were 
 also produced through this approach.\n\n\nBiograph
 y\n\nDr Saad Saleem Bhatti is affiliated with the 
 Department of Land Economy\, University of Cambrid
 ge as a Research Associate.  He is associated with
  the field of geoinformatics since 10 years\, incl
 uding around 6 years of teaching and research expe
 rience at the Remote Sensing and GIS Field of Stud
 y\, Asian Institute of Technology\, Thailand and t
 he Institute of Geographical Information Systems\,
  National University of Sciences and Technology\, 
 Pakistan. His research interests include multi-dis
 ciplinary applications of GIS techniques\, spatio-
 temporal analysis and mapping\, image processing\,
  interpretation and analysis\, and simulation mode
 ling. His present activities revolve around:\n- wo
 rking with agent based models\;\n- conducting rese
 arch in other relevant and multi-disciplinary area
 s\;\n- preparing proposals for research grants\; a
 nd\n- advising students in carrying out research a
 nd related activities.\n\n\nDr Bhatti also worked 
 on multi-scale modeling of urban growth to examine
  the future implications of urbanization on qualit
 y of life. He has been involved in a variety of re
 search studies related to the applications of geos
 patial techniques in the fields of hydrology\, dro
 ughts\, and natural hazards and disasters manageme
 nt with particular focus on the use of remotely se
 nsed data.\n
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Room 1
CONTACT:Clare Eaves
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