PyLUSAT

Python Land-Use Suitability Analysis Toolkit

Introduction

PyLUSAT intends to provide users with tools that can be used to conduct land-use suitability analysis.

Please cite:

Chen, C., Judge, J., Hulse, D. (2022). PyLUSAT: An open-source Python toolkit for GIS-based land use suitability analysis. Environmental Modelling and Software. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105362

Available Geospatial Functions

• Distance (point, line, raster)
• Density (point, line)
• Reclassify
• Interpolation (inverse distance weighting)
• Spatial Join
• Zonal Statistics
• Analytic Hierarchy Process

Install

PyLUSAT depends on the following packages.

• geopandas
• rasterio
• rasterstats
• scipy