OBJECTIVES:

• Understand decision modeling
• Understand the basic structure of the LUCIS process

CONTENT

1. Reading: Malczewski - GIS-based multicriteria decision analysis (PDF)
2. Lecture: Regional Geodesign for Land Use Analysis (Video; Duration: 40 minutes 59 seconds)
   This video summarizes the entire process and explain how the assignment you completed last week works all the way. You can view the entire video but the part I am most interested in for you starts at 28:10.
3. Lecture: Basics of LUCIS Suitability Analysis (Video; Duration 17 minutes 55 seconds)
4. Reading: Suitability Scores and Scales (PDF)
5. Estimating Habitat Suitability (URL)

The LUCIS Suitability Process

1. Reading: Carr and Zwick, Smart Land Use Analysis: The LUCIS Model. Chapter 6, Defining Goals and Objectives (PDF)
2. Lecture: Step 1: Developing LUCIS Goals and Objectives (Video; Duration: 17 minutes 46 seconds)
3. Lecture: Step 2: Finding Data for LUCIS (Video; Duration: 9 minutes 32 seconds)
4. Lecture: Step 3: Folder Structure (Video; Duration: 4 minutes 32 seconds)
5. Lecture: Step 4: LUCIS Model Overview (Video; Duration: 22 minutes 37 seconds)
6. Lecture: LUCIS Rules (Video; Duration 4 minutes 41 seconds)
7. Reading: Carr and Zwick, Smart Land Use Analysis: The LUCIS Model. Chapter 3, Basic GIS Concepts (PDF)
   You don't necessarily need to read EACH AND EVERY word in this chapter but if you skim to the important parts it will advise you on which tools to use and what each tool does.
8. Assignment: Lab 2 Suitability Models (GIST602CLab2_Suitability.docx)
   Resource: Suitability Models Goals and Objectives (PDF)

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