Multitemporal modeling and simulation of the complex dynamics in urban wetlands: the case of Bogota, Colombia.

ABSTRACT: Urban wetlands are essential to the longstanding health and well-being of cities. Acknowledged as rich in biodiversity and highly productive ecosystems, they provide ecosystem services represented in aspects such as air purification, urban climate regulation, physical and mental health, recreation, and contemplation, among a wide variety of other goods and services on which the quality of life of the inhabitants of large cities such as Bogota depends largely. We used cellular automata to model and simulate urban wetland changes in Bogota, Colombia. The study applied the coupled Markov-Future Land Use Simulation (FLUS) model to simulate and analyze land use/land cover (LULC) change over 20 years. First, we used an orthomosaic (1998) and two WorldView-2 satellite images (2004 and 2010), to d

SUBMITTER: Cuellar Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10256738 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature