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Based on a constrained CA model, this chapter proposes a multi-region model to reconstruct historical farmland spatial distribution. Setting the contemporary farmland as a maximum potential scope, the model employs variables such as the suitability for land reclamation, the farmland density, and reconstructed amount of historical farmland at the provincial level with the resolution of 1 km × 1 km to simulate the spatial change of farmland from 1661 to 1952 in China. Afterwards, an accuracy evaluation and comparative analysis have been conducted as well. Referring to a historical survey map in the 1930s, this reconstruction result is of the simulation accuracy of 69.84% with randomly selected 610 samples in 14 regions.
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Jin, X., Zhou, Y., Yang, X., Cheng, Y. (2018). Farmland Spatial Pattern Reconstruction in the Past 300 Years in China. In: Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980. Historical Geography and Geosciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71879-8_7
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