Simulation of urban expansion based on cellular automata and maximum entropy model

Urban expansion is a hot topic in land use/land cover change (LUCC) researches. In this paper, maximum entropy model and cellular automata (CA) model are coupled into a new CA model (Maxent-CA) for urban expansion. This model can help to obtain transition rules from single-period dataset. Moreover, it can be constructed and calibrated easily with several steps. Firstly, Maxent-CA model was built by using remote sensing data of China in 2000...