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Exploiting temporal coherence in forest dynamics simulation

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Agarwal, PK; Mølhave, T; Yu, H; Clark, JS
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry
July 15, 2011

Understanding the impact of climate and land-use on forest ecosystems involves modeling and simulating complex spatial interactions at many different scales. With this goal in mind, we have developed an individual-based, spatially explicit forest simulator, which incorporates fine-scale processes that influence forest dynamics. In this paper we present new, faster algorithms for computing understory light and for dispersal of seeds | the two most computationally intensive submodules in our simulator. By exploiting temporal coherence, we circumvent the problem of doing the entire simulation at each step. We provide experimental results that support the efficiency and efficacy of our approach. © 2011 ACM.

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Agarwal, P. K., Mølhave, T., Yu, H., & Clark, J. S. (2011). Exploiting temporal coherence in forest dynamics simulation. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry, 77–86. https://doi.org/10.1145/1998196.1998210
Agarwal, P. K., T. Mølhave, H. Yu, and J. S. Clark. “Exploiting temporal coherence in forest dynamics simulation.” Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry, July 15, 2011, 77–86. https://doi.org/10.1145/1998196.1998210.
Agarwal PK, Mølhave T, Yu H, Clark JS. Exploiting temporal coherence in forest dynamics simulation. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry. 2011 Jul 15;77–86.
Agarwal, P. K., et al. “Exploiting temporal coherence in forest dynamics simulation.” Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry, July 2011, pp. 77–86. Scopus, doi:10.1145/1998196.1998210.
Agarwal PK, Mølhave T, Yu H, Clark JS. Exploiting temporal coherence in forest dynamics simulation. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry. 2011 Jul 15;77–86.

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Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry

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July 15, 2011

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77 / 86