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cellular automata  

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  • Cellular automata (CA) are systems consisting of the following: A cellular space or otherwise discrete division of the world into independent entities; usually in GIS, this is assumed to be the cells of a raster grid plus the properties of the boundaries of the space. An exhaustive set of states into which each of the cells falls, such as urban/nonurban, or land use classes. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science; Cellular Automata]

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