Re-evaluation of topographic attributes with human population in deforestation framework with spatial dependency

This research prosecutes topographic attributes on forest acreage ratio (F) decrease by human population interactions (N), from the none to full coverage in grid cells. Tanaka and Nishii [9] verified that altitude as well as the slope steepness, i.e., topographic attributes, indicate strong influence to the deforestation in cells 0 <; F <; 1. Two new agenda were investigated in this research: zero-one inflated distribution of forest acreage, and effect of neighbor-cells. As for the former one, a classification problem of three forest coverage domains with F = 0, F = 1 and 0 <; F <; 1 is discussed. Then, statistical spatial models, as to the latter, are applied to the domain with 0 <; F <; 1, which take neighbor cell effects into account. This means that the methodology can analyze all terrestrial fields including deserts and climax forests.