Courses on Environmental Modelling using TerraME

This page presents material taught at courses on Environmental Modelling, prepared by the TerraME team.

• Introduction to Earth System Modelling.

• Introduction to Geoinformatics, Graduate Program on Geoinformatics, IFGI/WWU-Munster.
• Spatio-Temporal Information for Society, Graduate Program on Geoinformatics, IFGI/WWU-Munster.
• Environmental Modelling, Erasmus Mundus program 2013, IFGI/WWU-Munster.

A brief course on TerraME was given at the Vespucci Summer School 2010, prepared by Gilberto Camara, Tiago Carneiro and Pedro R. Andrade

A course on Enviromental Modelling using TerraME was given by Tiago Carneiro at the Department of Cartography Engineering at State University of Sao Paulo in 2010:

1. Conceitos fundamentais de modelagem ambiental
2. Ferramentas de Modelagem Ambiental
3. Teoria de sistemas
4. Modelagem Ambiental com TerraME
5. Introdução à Linguagem TerraME

1. Introduction: Concepts, complexity, cellular automata.
2. Introduction to TerraME and LUA with examples
3. Land Change Modelling: examples with deforestation models
4. Agent-Based Modelling: examples with urban models
5. Advanced TerraME programming

1. The Concept of Scale and its Challenges for LUCC Modeling (Gilberto Câmara)
2. Social-Economical-Political Drivers Behind the Land Use Change (Maria Isabel Sobral Escada)
3. People into the Models: Human Settlements, Villages, Cities and Connections (Silvana Amaral Kampel)
4. Land Change Modeling for Amazônia (Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar)
5. The TerraME Framework for LUCC Modeling (Tiago Carneiro)
6. Why Good LUCC Modeling is Important for Climate Change Models: The Challenges for Model Integration (Carlos Nobre)