A modelling platform prototype for environmental system dynamics

The scientific objective of this Sino-German cooperation project is to develop a modelling platform prototype for Big Data applications on the basis of giving solutions of the theoretical and technical problems to explore interactive mechanisms of land-use change and water-resource change under climate change and rapidly increasing human activities.
The general objective will be approached by conducting the following four model-oriented objectives:
• Models for simulating water resources changes
• Models for detecting land-cover changes
• Models for modeling ecosystem-change driving forces
• A modelling platform prototype
The conclusions of interactive mechanism between land-cover change and water-resource change as well as the change trends and scenarios from an application of the modelling platform prototype in Poyang Lake Basin will be submitted to local government of Jiang-Xi province for a reference of its decision making.