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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Online Questionnaire." National Research Council. 2014. Advancing Land Change Modeling: Opportunities and Research Requirements. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18385.
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Online Questionnaire

The questionnaire below was developed and used by the committee to gather information from key individuals and organizations involved in spatial data infrastructure development and implementation. A total of 116 respondents, 24 percent of whom were from outside the United States, submitted their answers to these questions using an online form.

Online Questionnaire: Land Change Modeling

At the request of the U.S. Geological Survey and National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Research Council is conducting a study to review the present status of spatially explicit land change modeling approaches and describe future data and research needs so that model outputs can better assist the science, policy, and decision-support communities. For a full statement of the committee’s task, click here.

Because the committee cannot hear from all the individuals and organizations that have valuable experience and ideas on this topic, the committee seeks your help on the following five questions.

Within the context of land modeling:

1. What data products are you using for building, validating, and running land change models?

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Online Questionnaire." National Research Council. 2014. Advancing Land Change Modeling: Opportunities and Research Requirements. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18385.
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2. What data products do you most need that do not exist or are not accessible?

3. How might a national sample of land use, land cover, and related data be useful to your work?

4. Would you participate in a land data clearinghouse?

5. Would you participate in a community effort aimed at coordinating development and application of land change models?

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Online Questionnaire." National Research Council. 2014. Advancing Land Change Modeling: Opportunities and Research Requirements. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18385.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Online Questionnaire." National Research Council. 2014. Advancing Land Change Modeling: Opportunities and Research Requirements. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18385.
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People are constantly changing the land surface through construction, agriculture, energy production, and other activities. Changes both in how land is used by people (land use) and in the vegetation, rock, buildings, and other physical material that cover the Earth's surface (land cover) can be described and future land change can be projected using land-change models (LCMs). LCMs are a key means for understanding how humans are reshaping the Earth's surface in the past and present, for forecasting future landscape conditions, and for developing policies to manage our use of resources and the environment at scales ranging from an individual parcel of land in a city to vast expanses of forests around the world.

Advancing Land Change Modeling: Opportunities and Research Requirements describes various LCM approaches, suggests guidance for their appropriate application, and makes recommendations to improve the integration of observation strategies into the models. This report provides a summary and evaluation of several modeling approaches, and their theoretical and empirical underpinnings, relative to complex land-change dynamics and processes, and identifies several opportunities for further advancing the science, data, and cyberinfrastructure involved in the LCM enterprise. Because of the numerous models available, the report focuses on describing the categories of approaches used along with selected examples, rather than providing a review of specific models. Additionally, because all modeling approaches have relative strengths and weaknesses, the report compares these relative to different purposes. Advancing Land Change Modeling's recommendations for assessment of future data and research needs will enable model outputs to better assist the science, policy, and decisionsupport communities.

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