A Cellular Automaton Model of Land Use and Land Cover Change:
Lessons Learned from a Hundred Applications
Keith Clarke
The SLEUTH model is a cellular automaton model of both
urban growth and land use change. The model has been applied to over a hundred
different cities around the world, and the first meta-analyses of the model's
fit to these cities has been conducted. In this presentation, I will review
the mechanics of the model and the model's assumptions, including the more
complex self-modification property and the change-space land use component. An
overview of the various model refinements and experiments will be given, with a
discussion of the various model applications. A preview of current work, in
which the model is being applied on a national scale to the entire lower 48
states of the