- Specify constraint and incentive maps for change prediction process. Allows the user to assess the impacts of existing and proposed reserved areas or how tax incentives, for example, might redirect the course of change. These interventions are integrated with the change prediction process.
- Specify infrastructure changes and dates they become effective for the change prediction process. Allows the user to specify a set of major infrastructure changes either by indicating the names of existing infrastructure layers and the dates they become effective, or by specifying the end-points and allowing the system to develop the least-cost engineering routes.
- Develop biological corridors based on species habitat suitability models, weighted suitability for development, weighted conservation value and protected lands. The underlying procedure is based on a cost distance analysis using frictions developed from a special multi-criteria aggregation of the multiple suitability inputs. Target corridor width and number of branches can also be specified.
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