LUCAS is a computer-based application specifically designed
to integrate current and forthcoming information
for (1) providing a multidisciplinary modeling
environment for addressing research questions concerning
land use and its impacts, (2) applying adaptive management
approaches in order to address management questions concerning
landscape-impact assessment, and (3) designing a tool for
workstations supporting the
Unix
operating system, X-Windows,
and Motif user libraries.
The immediate objectives of LUCAS are to (1) integrate the various components of the Olympic Peninsula/Southeastern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve Land-Use Model discussed in Section 1.1, and (2) to develop a graphical user interface (GUI) capable of extracting different forms of land-use data for the adaptive management approach.