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	تحلیل مسیر کم‌هزینه / تحلیل هزینه-فاصله	مدل تغییر کاربری اراضی CA-Markov
حوزه	تحلیل فضایی	تحلیل فضایی
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	1994	1997
پدیدآور	Edsger Dijkstra (shortest path); GIS cost-surface adaptation	Cellular automata (Clarke) + Markov chain (Muller & Middleton)
نوع	Raster cost-surface routing	Spatio-temporal land-use change simulation
منبع بنیادین	Dijkstra, E. W. (1959). A note on two problems in connexion with graphs. Numerische Mathematik, 1(1), 269–271.	Clarke, K. C., Hoppen, S., & Gaydos, L. (1997). A self-modifying cellular automaton model of historical urbanization in the San Francisco Bay area. Environment and Planning B, 24(2), 247–261.
نام‌های دیگر	cost-distance analysis, accumulated cost surface, least-cost corridor, en düşük maliyetli yol	CA-Markov model, cellular automata Markov, land-use change simulation, CA-Markov arazi kullanımı modeli
مرتبط	3	3
خلاصه	Least-cost path analysis finds the route between two locations that minimizes accumulated travel cost across a landscape, rather than minimizing straight-line distance. By encoding terrain, slope, land cover, and other frictions into a cost surface and accumulating cost outward from a source, it identifies optimal corridors for roads, pipelines, trails, power lines, and wildlife movement — a core raster-GIS technique built on Dijkstra's shortest-path logic.	CA-Markov is a hybrid spatio-temporal model that projects land-use and land-cover change by combining a Markov chain — which predicts how much of each class will change — with cellular automata, which decide where that change happens. Widely used for urban-growth and land-cover forecasting, it answers both the quantity and the location of change, something neither component does well alone.