Modelling vegetation land fragmentation in urban areas of Western Province, Sri Lanka using an Artificial Intelligence-based simulation technique

• Amila Jayasinghe ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  * E-mail: amilabj@uom.lk (AJ); 162326c@uom.lk, nesharanaweera29@gmail.com (NR); chethika@uom.lk (CA); niroshans@uom.lk (NB); chathurads@uom.lk (CDS)

  Affiliation Department of Town & Country Planning, Urban Simulation Laboratory, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3268-6428

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• Nesha Ranaweera ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: amilabj@uom.lk (AJ); 162326c@uom.lk, nesharanaweera29@gmail.com (NR); chethika@uom.lk (CA); niroshans@uom.lk (NB); chathurads@uom.lk (CDS)

  Affiliation Department of Town & Country Planning, Urban Simulation Laboratory, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

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• Chethika Abenayake ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chethika Abenayake, Niroshan Bandara, Chathura De Silva

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: amilabj@uom.lk (AJ); 162326c@uom.lk, nesharanaweera29@gmail.com (NR); chethika@uom.lk (CA); niroshans@uom.lk (NB); chathurads@uom.lk (CDS)

  Affiliation Department of Town & Country Planning, Urban Simulation Laboratory, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

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• Niroshan Bandara ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chethika Abenayake, Niroshan Bandara, Chathura De Silva

  Roles Conceptualization, Software, Visualization

  * E-mail: amilabj@uom.lk (AJ); 162326c@uom.lk, nesharanaweera29@gmail.com (NR); chethika@uom.lk (CA); niroshans@uom.lk (NB); chathurads@uom.lk (CDS)

  Affiliation Department of Town & Country Planning, Urban Simulation Laboratory, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7693-3785

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• Chathura De Silva

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chethika Abenayake, Niroshan Bandara, Chathura De Silva

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  * E-mail: amilabj@uom.lk (AJ); 162326c@uom.lk, nesharanaweera29@gmail.com (NR); chethika@uom.lk (CA); niroshans@uom.lk (NB); chathurads@uom.lk (CDS)

  Affiliation Department of Town & Country Planning, Urban Simulation Laboratory, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8622-9436

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