The Landscape Change Module in Figure 2 is the heart of the LUCAS software.
It takes the multinomial logit coefficients generated in Socioeconomic Model Module, implements the actual landscape change, and produces new land cover maps and statistics as output. The first step in designing LUCAS was to develop the method to simulate one time step, a five year period, of landscape change over multiple replicates. Figure 3 shows the general algorithm used by LUCAS to simulate a given scenario.
