Artificial intelligence-based models to simulate land-use change around an estuary

ABSTRACT Carrero, R., Navas, F., Malvarez, G., Guisado-Pintado, E. 2014. Artificial intelligence-based models to simulate land-use changes around an estuary. In: Green, A.N. and Cooper, J.A.G. (eds.), Proceedings 13th International Coastal Symposium (Durban, South Africa), Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 70, pp. 414–419, ISSN 0749-0208. Understanding human-driven land-use changes is a key element for successful coastal management and planning. Land-use change modelling helps to increase our comprehension of the patterns of these changes and the interacting factors affecting them. In previous years, a wide variety of land-use modelling approaches have arisen, however not all of them fit with the complex and especially dynamic behaviour of land use changes in coastal areas. In this sense, the so called ‘fifth generation’ of models represent an opportunity, as they integrate computer modelling with artificial intelligence technology allowing a more flexible and non-linear approaches that bette...