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Land Change Modeler

Land Change Modeler is an innovative land planning and decision support software tool. Widely used for the prioritization of conservation and planning efforts, Land Change Modeler allows you to rapidly analyze land cover change, simulate future land change scenarios, and model species impacts and biodiversity.

With an automated, user-friendly workflow, Land Change Modeler simplifies the complexities of change analysis, resource management and habitat assessment. Fully integrated within the IDRISI GIS and Image Processing system, Land Change Modeler provides a start-to-finish solution for your change analysis needs. Land Change Modeler is also available separately as an extension to ESRI's ArcGIS product.

Fully integrated into Land Change Modeler is support for REDD forest project planning aimed at Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. The REDD tool facilitates the estimation of baseline emissions from various carbon pools and allows the calculation of deferred emissions and carbon credits.

Land Change Modeler Key Features

A suite of tools for rapid land cover change analysis and monitoring
A modeling and prediction environment to create future landscape scenarios
A wide range of tools for species distribution modeling, habitat assessment and measuring biodiversity
An interface to MaxEnt for species distribution modeling
Tools for REDD forest project carbon emission assessment
A facility for conservation planning and reserve design with an interface to Marxan

Learn more about Land Change Modeler

Land Change Modeler Brochure (PDF)
Land Change Modeler Focus Paper (PDF)
Modeling REDD Baselines Focus Paper (PDF)
Species Distribution Modeling Focus Paper (PDF)

Analytical Examples:

Land Change Analysis with Land Change Modeler in IDRISI Taiga

The Change Analysis panel provides a set of tools for understanding the nature and extent of landcover change, including graphs of gains and losses, net changes and contributions experienced by any category. A simple one-click interface provides the ability to generate rapid maps of change, persistence, specific transitions and exchanges between categories.

Species Habitat Assessment with Land Change Modeler in IDRISI Taiga

The Habitat Assessment panel maps areas into categories of primary and secondary habitat, primary and secondary potential corridor and unsuitable lands based on landcover and habitat suitability. The user specifies parameters such as home range size, buffer widths, and gap crossing distances within range and during dispersal.