...ARC/INFO

ARC/INFO is a registered trademark of ESRI, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. 380 New York Street, Redlands, CA 92373.

...simulation

Such simulations are also sometimes referred to as Monte Carlo simulations because of their use of random variables [23,29].

...GF[2].

For more information about Galois Fields, see [10].

...R250

The source code is available on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.taygeta.com/random.html.

...LUCAS

This is the corrected patch perimeter/area metric: 43#43) [27].

...task

A task in PVM is comparable to a UNIX process, i.e., an independent thread of execution on a given host.

...readability.

These operators allowed the source code for the GRASS program r.clump to be used for the patch-based transition module (Section 3.3.2) with relatively few changes. Instead of single grid cells, the code operates on landscape condition labels with identical operators.

...XGraph.

XGraph version 11.3.2 was written in 1989 by David Harrison at the University of California, Berkeley.

...Machine

PVM version 3.3.7 was used in pLUCAS.

...maps.

Due to the availability of only a select number of land cover maps, historical maps are not available for each simulated year.

Michael W. Berry (berry@cs.utk.edu)
Wed Aug 16 10:48:40 EDT 1995