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LANDSCAPE SUITABILITY MODELING
Document
Collection
(Warning: Some of these files are LARGE)
Overview | Suitability
model data & criteria | Land suitability
maps single / combo
generalized zoning | presentations
A regional organization, Sustainable Sandhills, received a three-year STAR (Science to Achieve Results) grant award in August of 2005 from the EPA's Collaborative Network for Sustainability (CNS) program. This project will create a set of GIS based models of land suitability to balance development, conservation and community. The models and resulting maps and tables are intended to enhance each local community’s ability to assess the implications of the land use priorities they develop.
Project Participant List
SUITABILITY MODEL DATA & CRITERIA (Version 1)
GIS data layers used in the six landscape suitability models
Overview of data layers used: table | list
Detailed criteria, rating and relative weighting tables
Planning tools: zoning and suitability maps, September 2008 - Susan Pulsipher (PDF)
Developing a land use suitability model for regional growth management planning,
September 2008
-- Overview - Jon Parsons
-- Data - Susan Pulsipher (PDF)
-- Modeling - Jeff Brown
-- Utilization - Don Belk
Displaying results 20070813 draft for Sept 14 mtg (PPT 21.5 MB)
Technical presentation , NC GIS conference, March 2007 (4.5 MB)
Presentation to RLUAC Board of Directors February 2007 (PDF)
Detailed explanation of construction and attributes of each landscape sustainability model (PDFs)
These five documents are organized the same way. Once you've viewed one document carefully you can skip to the criteria sections on the others.
Criteria and values has changed during the project process as different groups provided input and evaluated results. The criteria in these five documents are the modeling criteria in use.
Development models
Commercial
and Industrial (3MB)
Residential (3.5
MB)
Non-development models
Natural
Areas (2 MB)
Working Farms (3
MB)
Working Forests (3
MB)
Preliminary work on how to combine models and present combination results
Combinations 1 20070806 (PPT 20 MB)
Updated October 8, 2008
For more information contact Susan Pulsipher
