Crop types in LPJmL

Model attribute	Value
Name and Version	IMAGE framework 3.0
Model developer and main users	PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency/ Utrecht University
Model objective	IMAGE is an ecological-environmental model framework that simulates the environmental consequences of human activities worldwide. The objective of the IMAGE model is to explore the long- term dynamics and impacts of global changes that result. More specifically, the model aims: to analyse interactions between human development and the natural environment to gain better insight into the processes of global environmental change; to identify response strategies to global environmental change based on assessment of options and to indicate key interlinkages and associated levels of uncertainty in processes of global environmental change.
Model concept	The IMAGE framework can best be described as a geographically explicit assessment, integrated assessment simulation model, focusing a detailed representation of relevant processes with respect to human use of energy, land and water in relation to relevant environmental processes.