Project Overview

The LEAM Model, its development, and its application to several regions within the continental United States is conducted and managed by a team of faculty, staff, and students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This team brings together expertise in substantive issues, modeling, high-performance computing, and visualization coming from the departments of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, Geography, Economics, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and private industry.

The mission of the LEAM group is to help others understand the relationships between human economic/cultural activities and biophysical cycles from a changing land use perspective. All of us must realize that these interacting systems behave in very complex and dynamic ways.

Understanding the extent of how one system affects another will allow us to make better land use management decisions in the future.

For printed information about the leam process, download:
LEAM TRI-FOLD BROCHURE (8.5x11 pdf)
LEAM TECHNICAL BROCHURE (11x17 pdf)