%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Kone, A.
%A Fontaine, A.
%A El Yacoubi, S.
%A Loireau, Maud
%A Jangorzo, S. N.
%T Assessing the impact of anthropogenic factors on desertification through the DESERTICAS software
%D 2022
%L PAR00025585
%G ENG
%J Journal of Cellular Automata
%@ 1557-5969
%K Cellular automata ; MEDALUS ; desertification sensitivity index ; desertification software ; land degradation ; predominant factor
%M ISI:000906763200006
%N 5-6
%P 423-442
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/PAR00025585
%V 16
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X Based on coupling a continuous cellular automaton with the MEDALUS model enhanced by anthropogenic factors, DESERTICAS is specially designed to model and simulate the evolution of land degra-dation over time and space. One of the interests of this modelling is to associate rehabilitation and restoration actions through a factor, called the predominant factor, which has an overall impact on the system. The study carried out in this paper aims at extracting this prevailing fac-tor among those already involved in the desertification phenomenon through the DESERTICAS software. The comparative analysis of the effects of the different desertification factors highlights the predom-inance of man-made management in the modelling carried out. Act-ing positively on the management factor means acting indirectly on the other desertification factors in order to interrupt the sources of degrada-tion and slow down or stop land desertification.