Design and Interpretation of Intensity Analysis Illustrated by Land Change in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Robert Gilmore Pontius, Yan Gao, Nicholas M. Giner, Takashi Kohyama, Mitsuru Osaki and Kazuyo Hirose
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Robert Gilmore Pontius: Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA 10610, USA
Yan Gao: Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
Nicholas M. Giner: Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA 10610, USA
Takashi Kohyama: Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
Mitsuru Osaki: Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, N9W9, Sapporo 064-8589, Japan
Kazuyo Hirose: Japan Space Systems, 3-5-8 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan

Land, 2013, vol. 2, issue 3, 1-19

Abstract: Intensity Analysis has become popular as a top-down hierarchical accounting framework to analyze differences among categories, such as changes in land categories over time. Some aspects of interpretation are straightforward, while other aspects require deeper thought. This article explains how to interpret Intensity Analysis with respect to four concepts. First, we illustrate how to analyze whether error could account for non-uniform changes. Second, we explore two types of the large dormant category phenomenon. Third, we show how results can be sensitive to the selection of the domain. Fourth, we explain how Intensity Analysis’ symmetric top-down hierarchy influences interpretation with respect to temporal processes, for which changes during a time interval influence the sizes of the categories at the final time, but not at the initial time. We illustrate these concepts by applying Intensity Analysis to changes during one time interval (2000–2004) in a part of Central Kalimantan for the land categories Forest, Bare and Grass.

Keywords: category; change; deforestation; error; Intensity Analysis; Kalimantan; land; matrix; Markov; transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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