Courses on Environmental Modelling

This page presents material taught at courses on Environmental Modelling, prepared by INPE's research group on LUCC. This course is taught regularly at INPE´s graduate programs in Remote Sensing and Computer Science. Versions of this course have been presented at:

• Summer School for Enviromental Modelling in Amazonia, Brazilian Mathematical Society, May 2005.
• IAI-CPTEC Training Institute on Climate, Land Use and Modeling, August 2006.
• Fall School, Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Germany, September 2006.
• Spring School , Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Germany, 2008.

Our courses use the TerraME software, available here or at UFOP´s TerraLab site.

INPE 2008 - Modelling and Simulation of Terrestrial Systems (INPE´s Graduate Programs in Remote Sensing and Computer Science)

INPE 2009 - Modelling and Simulation of Terrestrial Systems (INPE´s Graduate Programs in Remote Sensing and Computer Science)

1. Introduction: Concepts, complexity, cellular automata.
2. Introduction to TerraME and LUA with examples
3. Land Change Modelling: examples with deforestation models
4. Agent-Based Modelling: examples with urban models
5. Advanced TerraME programming

1. The Concept of Scale and its Challenges for LUCC Modeling (Gilberto Câmara)
2. Social-Economical-Political Drivers Behind the Land Use Change (Maria Isabel Sobral Escada)
3. People into the Models: Human Settlements, Villages, Cities and Connections (Silvana Amaral Kampel)
4. Land Change Modeling for Amazônia (Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar)
5. The TerraME Framework for LUCC Modeling (Tiago Carneiro)
6. Why Good LUCC Modeling is Important for Climate Change Models: The Challenges for Model Integration (Carlos Nobre)