Modeling Environmental Dynamics with Dinamica EGO

Guidebook

Britaldo S. Soares-Filho, Hermann O. Rodrigues, William L. Costa (2009)

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Revised edition (July 2013) Juliana Leroy Davis

Introduction
Basic Lessons Building a simple model Incorporating iterations into a model Using the concept of region Calculating accumulated cost surface and least-cost pathway Multiple Criteria Evaluation in Dinamica EGO
Land use and land cover change simulation Building a land-use and land-cover change simulation model
Advanced Analysis Advanced resources Landscape metrics in Dinamica EGO REDD case study Heuristic calibration of models by using Genetic Algorithm
Dinamica EGO script language and console launcher Final Remarks References