Inpe, the National Institute of Space Research, has just launched LuccMe – Land Use and Cover Change, an open-code tool to create changes in the use and coverage of land. Developed by CCST, Inpe’s Earth System Science Center, it is an extension of the TerraME modeling environment, the result of a partnering agreement between the institute and the Federal University of Ouro Preto. According to Inpe, the application enables the simulation of different processes of change in the use and the coverage of land, such as deforestation, expansion of the agricultural frontier, desertification, forest degradation, urban expansion and other processes of different scales and in various fields of study. One of the applications of this type of model is the construction of alternative future scenarios. According to Ana Paula Aguiar, an Inpe researcher and the project’s leader, the LuccME proposal is to offer a tool in which previously available components are combined and extended for the creation of models.
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