The FORE-SCE model: Land Use Modeling ... - Farm Foundation

Controlling Transition Probabilities
“Elasticity” is an ecoregion-specific modifier to base probability values. It’s
simply a number from 0 to 10 that gives the likelihood of a specific transition type
occurring in that ecoregion.
Elasticity for every possible land cover transition determined from Land Cover
Trends data
Powerful tool for control of scenario development. Depending upon the scenario,
we can tightly or loosely restrict the types of land cover transitions that are allowed
to occur.
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