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Cellular Automata (CA) is widely used for the simulation of land use changes. This study applied a vector-based CA model to simulate land use change in order to minimize or eliminate the scale sensitivity in traditional raster-based CA model. The cells of vector-based CA model are presented according to the shapes and attributes of geographic entities, and the transition rules of vector-based CA model are improved by taking spatial variables of the study area into consideration. The vector-based CA model is applied to simulate land use changes in downtown of Qidong City, Jiangsu Province, China and its validation is confirmed by the methods of visual assessment and spatial accuracy. The simulation result of vector-based CA model reveals that nearly 75% of newly increased urban cells are located in the northwest and southwest parts of the study area from 2002 to 2007, which is in consistent with real land use map. In addition, the simulation results of the vector-based and raster-based CA models are compared to real land use data and their spatial accuracies are found to be 84.0% and 81.9%, respectively. In conclusion, results from this study indicate that the vector-based CA model is a practical and applicable method for the simulation of urbanization processes.
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Foundation item: Under the auspices of National Science Foundation of China (No. 41101349), Surveying and Mapping Scientific Research Projects of Jiangsu Province (No. JSCHKY201304), Program of Natural Science Research of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (No. 13KJB420003), Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
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Lu, Y., Cao, M. & Zhang, L. A vector-based Cellular Automata model for simulating urban land use change. Chin. Geogr. Sci. 25, 74–84 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-014-0719-9
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