CIS MODEL APPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL

摘要

A 5-year cooperation between the Universities of Munich (Germany) and Redlands (USA) has resulted in the development of GIS processing tools and models to support regional environmental planning and management. Large spatial databases were structured and modern geoprocessing technologies such as ESRI's ModelBuilder were used to develop frameworks of GIS models and decision support tools. The results include a Decision Support System in the form of a complete database and models that can be easily adjusted to different planning goals or regions and allow identification of land use conflicts, sensitivity analysis, assessment of development scenarios and their impacts, besides graphical representation of the processing workflows and high quality output maps. Actual planning projects were the bases for application examples in the Munich Region: the Landscape Development Concept, and the urban growth model framework.