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Table 2 Cramer’s V
Factors Name Cramer’s V
1 Distance to Boston 0.1585
2 Distance to developed open space 0.499
3 Distance to ponds 0.645
4 Distance to streams 0.965
5 DEM 0.1564
6 Distance to developed space 0.864
7 Slope 0.741
8 Massachusetts towns 0.648
9 Distance to roads 0.1164
Fig. 6. (a) Transition potential map using the deciduous forest class, light Pixel with the value of 1 (new areas) and dark
Pixel with values of 0 (unchanged areas), (b) soft prediction map
Finally, using the Markov chain method, a new land use map was produced in 2016, and after evaluating the modelling
results, which had an overall accuracy of 84.21% and a Kappa index of 0.7150, the land use map for 2026 is predicted.
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