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This is Andy Ford responding to Daniel Castillo Brievas inquiry about =
combining system dynamics with a Geographical Information System, a GIS. =
Its gratifying to see so many responses to this inquiry, especially =
for those of us working in the environmental area.

Hallie Anthony, one of our MS students at WSU, did her thesis on this =
topic. The SD model was a dynamic model of the water flows in the Mono =
Basin in California. This model is described in Chapter 4 of Modeling =
the Environment. Hallies GIS and its connection to the SD model is =
described on the books website. Go to:

http://www.islandpress.org/ford

click on opening paragraphs from Appendicies, then click on Appx I for =
"Spatial Dynamics." Youll see an example of her GIS output along with =
an explanation of what she went through to create the GIS and the link =
to the SD model.


Andy Ford
Program in Environmental Science and Regional Planning
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-4430
USA

Phone: 509 335 7846
Email: FordA@mail.wsu.edu
Website: http://www.wsu.edu/~forda

for rather advanced spatial dynamic modeling, see http://blizzard.gis.uiuc.edu/


Bruce Hannon, Jubilee Professor
Liberal Arts and Sciences
Geog/NCSA
220 Davenport Hall, MC 150
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
reply to: b-hannon@uiuc.edu
Vita: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~j-domier/people/hannon.html
Example Models: http://blizzard.gis.uiuc.edu/
Modeling Books: http://www.springer-ny.com/biology/moddysys/
217 333-0348 office
217 244 1785 fax