Thus the integrated modeling approach facilitates the assessment of both the
socioeconomic and ecological perspectives—such as—demand on labor, capital,
farm land, and the benefit the activity provides for income generation of farmers;
biodiversity, soil quality, erosion, water quality, nutrient cycling, and air pollution,
ecological resource flow, and several other variables.
The steps to develop the model realization within the interdisciplinary research
framework are depicted in Fig. 3. The scheme will also serve as a guideline for the
research activities undertaken for developing robust approaches.
The requirement of the integrated interdisciplinary climate-land use model
should be as follows.
8 Monitoring System Development
A database system for the storage and structuring of monitoring information is the
backbone of the integrated modeling efforts. Monitoring information comprises the
field-based data collection and queries, available data based on the empirical field
work, data from secondary sources (Census; Statistical Handbook; Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) and many other data sources), and remote sensing
data. Remote sensing is one of the potential approaches to analyze the spatiotemporal dimension of the landscape development. This is a precondition for ex-post
simulation analysis and model evaluation. In this direction the data has to be
collected for past three decades which can be used and applied. The database can be
realized with different freely available software products such as PostgreSQL or
MySQL.
9 After the Development of the Monitoring System
the Following Three Steps Are Important
in the Perspective of Interdisciplinary Research on Land
Use-Climate Modeling
1. Model development in a region that is well known to the researchers.
2. Model validation in representative area
3. Model application in a new area.
As discussed with the pervious section of this article, as a basic requirement to
developing the model for real word, the representative sites (10 km × 10 km grid
size) in some of the geo-climatic regions have to be chosen for initiation of work.
As a basic requirement for model development, the regions should be well known
to the research team. The expected benefit of this approach is that—basic understanding of landscape is a precondition in contributing to a sustainable land use land
cover development and its adaptation to changing climate.
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socioeconomic and ecological perspectives—such as—demand on labor, capital,
farm land, and the benefit the activity provides for income generation of farmers;
biodiversity, soil quality, erosion, water quality, nutrient cycling, and air pollution,
ecological resource flow, and several other variables.
The steps to develop the model realization within the interdisciplinary research
framework are depicted in Fig. 3. The scheme will also serve as a guideline for the
research activities undertaken for developing robust approaches.
The requirement of the integrated interdisciplinary climate-land use model
should be as follows.
8 Monitoring System Development
A database system for the storage and structuring of monitoring information is the
backbone of the integrated modeling efforts. Monitoring information comprises the
field-based data collection and queries, available data based on the empirical field
work, data from secondary sources (Census; Statistical Handbook; Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) and many other data sources), and remote sensing
data. Remote sensing is one of the potential approaches to analyze the spatiotemporal dimension of the landscape development. This is a precondition for ex-post
simulation analysis and model evaluation. In this direction the data has to be
collected for past three decades which can be used and applied. The database can be
realized with different freely available software products such as PostgreSQL or
MySQL.
9 After the Development of the Monitoring System
the Following Three Steps Are Important
in the Perspective of Interdisciplinary Research on Land
Use-Climate Modeling
1. Model development in a region that is well known to the researchers.
2. Model validation in representative area
3. Model application in a new area.
As discussed with the pervious section of this article, as a basic requirement to
developing the model for real word, the representative sites (10 km × 10 km grid
size) in some of the geo-climatic regions have to be chosen for initiation of work.
As a basic requirement for model development, the regions should be well known
to the research team. The expected benefit of this approach is that—basic understanding of landscape is a precondition in contributing to a sustainable land use land
cover development and its adaptation to changing climate.
570
S. Nautiyal and R. Schaldach