Forecasting and assessing the impact of urban sprawl in coastal watersheds along eastern Lake Michigan RUNNING TITLE: Urban Sprawl along Lake Michigan
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The Land Transformation Model (LTM), which as been developed to forecast urban use changes in a grid-based geographic information system, was used to explore the consequences of future urban changes to the years 2020 and 2040 using non urban sprawl and urban sprawl trends. The model was executed over a large area containing nine of the major coastal watersheds of eastern Lake Michigan. We found that the Black-Macatawa and Lower Grand watersheds will experience the most urban change in the next twenty to forty years. These changes will likely impact the hydrologic
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Forecasting and assessing the impact of urban sprawl in coastal watersheds along eastern Lake Michigan
The Land Transformation Model (LTM), which has been developed to forecast urban-use changes in a grid-based geographical information system, was used to explore the consequences of future urban changes to the years 2020 and 2040 using non-urban sprawl and urban-sprawl trends. The model was executed over a large area containing nine of the major coastal watersheds of eastern Lake Michigan. We fo...
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