Delaware River Basin Project
 Delaware River Basin Project Home Page Links to individual projects: Modeling Urban Expansion in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area; A Cellular Automata Approach Historical land-use data from the twentieth century was used as input to the SLEUTH land-use change model, a Cellular Automata model developed by Keith Clarke at the University of California at Santa Barbara, to produce projections of urban expansion in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Twentieth-Century Land Surface Changes in the Delaware Water Gap Basin, a GIS Snapshot Approach Methods of integrating land-surface data and measuring change with time are being tested on historical land use/land cover data of the Delaware Water Gap watershed area in Pennsylvania. |
Study AreaDescriptionThe study area covers several counties surrounding Philadelphia in the States of New Jersey and Delaware, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. New Jersey counties are Mercer, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Salem. The only Delaware county is New Castle. Pennsylvania counties include Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia. The study area contains the Philadelphia Metropolitan Region which is a nine county area of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission.
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ReferencesClark, Dennis. Philadelphia, 1776-2076: A Three Hundred Year View. Port Washington: 1975. Hoffecker, Carol E. Delaware: A Bicentennial History. New York: 1977. Hoffecker, Carol E. Corporate Capital: Wilmington in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: 1983. Warner, Sam Bass, Jr. The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of its Growth. Philadelphia: 1968. Weigley, Russell F. Philadelphia: A 300 Year History. New York: 1982. |
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