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Graduate Student, Departamento de Geografia
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Master in GIS and Spatial Planning (2010)
In recent years, urban and regional planning has increasingly relied on dynamic models based on increasingly sophisticated technique to generate multiple scenarios decision support for the planning and land management, allowing anticipating scenarios, minimize problems and maximize gains.
With the development of Geocomputating, there was an increase in the dissemination of spatial analysis methods that combine approaches recurrent from Geographic Information Systems with other emergents, such as the use of modeling with cellular automata. These models have assumed an important role in contributing to the reading and interpretation of spatial dynamics, allowing it to model and simulate "behaviors" of evolution and reaction of the territories, in other words, it may be a crucial tool for the improvement of interpretations, explanations and territorial prospects.
On this basis, this research has two main objectives: the first focuses on issues of assessment (intervention versus resultants) of spatial planning in the municipality of Cabeceiras de Basto (Northern Portugal) and its influence on urban growth, the second associated to this one passes by the test of methodologies for assessing trends, by simulating scenarios of urban sprawl, using the modeling with cellular automata through model Sleuth, which allows measurement of trend-use change and land use in view of the contribution for better definition of territorial intervention instruments.
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