Research Seminar: Urban Cellular Automata Modelling: Applications, Challenges and Future Research
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Date
16 Sep 2022
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Organiser
Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI)
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Time
10:00 - 11:00
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Venue
online via Zoom
Speaker
Professor Yan LIU
Enquiry
Ms Anna Choi 3400 8158 anna.choi@polyu.edu.hk
Summary
Urban cellular automata modelling has been extensively applied in land use change simulation for nearly four decades. In this talk I will discuss some of the contemporary issues and challenges faced in urban CA modelling, and a set of interrelated thematic areas that require concerted attention by the wider urban CA communities. I will also showcase some of the recent advances that my research team has made in response to the challenges, including the simulation of human behaviours, spatial scenario planning in the wake of climate change, and the engagement of individual’s decision behaviours contributing to urban land use planning through public participation.
Keynote Speaker
Yan LIU is Professor of Geographical Information Science at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is a Quantitative Human Geographer and a Spatial Data Scientist. Her research focuses on cities and computational urban science, including urban analytics, modelling and geo-simulation, and the applications of GIS and Big Data analytics in spatial planning, policy analysis, and spatially integrated social studies. She is currently serving at the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts, Scientific Advisory Board Member of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN), an editorial board member of Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science and an Associate Editor of Computational Urban Science, amongst others.
