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Foil 52 LMS: Changes in Vegetation

From Gateway: A High Level Interface to High performance Commodity Metacomputing PhD Proposal NPAC -- Sept 23 1999. by Erol Akarsu


A decision maker (the end user of the system) wants to evaluate changes in vegetation in a geographical region over a long time period caused by short term disturbances such as a fire or human activity.
One of the critical parameters of the vegetation model (EDYS) is soil condition at the time of the disturbance.
This in turn is dominated by rainfall that possibly occurs at that time (CASC2D simulation)
Input data for the simulations are available from the Internet, such as Data Elevation Models (DEM) from USGS web site or from custom databases (spices characteristics)



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