Objective evaluation in problems considering many, often conflicting criteria is challenging for the decision-maker. This paper presents an approach based on MCDA methods to objectify evaluations camera selection problem. The proposed includes three methods, TOPSIS, VIKOR, COMET, and two criterion weighting techniques. Two ranking similarity coefficients were used compare resulting rankings of ...

Globally, an increasing and more dispersed population, as well climate change, have led to growing impacts of environmental hazards, particularly across areas prone extreme weather events such tropical cyclones. Tropical cyclones frequently cause fatalities, damage infrastructure, disruption economic activities. The north northeast regions Oman, the Oman seacoast, are storm surges, windstorms p...

The spatial assessments of water supply quality from wells, springs, and surface bodies were performed during the dry rainy seasons in six municipalities eastern regions Michoacán (Central Mexico). Different physicochemical parameters used to determine supplies’ Water Quality Index (WQI); all communities presented good quality. analysis indicates that many within limits set by international sta...

background due to burgeoning population, solid waste site selection is one of the most crucial issues in waste management system. regarding the complexity of waste management systems, the convenient solid waste site selection involves considering multiple alternative solutions and assessing different criteria. objectives the current study, aimed to select the fuzzy logic method as one of the mo...

Abstract—Multi criteria decision analysis (MDCA) covers both data and experience. It is very common to solve the problems with many parameters and uncertainties. GIS supported solutions improve and speed up the decision process. Weighted grading as a MDCA method is employed for solving the geotechnical problems. In this study, geotechnical parameters namely soil type; SPT (N) blow number, shear...

ABSTRACT. ––Land suitability assessment in a Geographic Information System (GIS) environment is formulated as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. Different MCDM approaches are developed to combine factors in a suitability analysis of land for potential land uses. These MCDM approaches are used to develop a generic suitability index. Approaches include both qualitative and quantitat...

Analysis of land-use suitability requires consideration of variety of criteria. Application of GIS alone could not overcome the issue of inconsistency in expert opinion when trying to judge and assign relative importance to each of many criteria considered in a suitability analysis. To address this issue, the Analytical Hierarchy Process method is used in combination with the GIS tool. The pape...

Zagros Mountains in west of Iran are covered by unique forests and rangelands. Increasing population, low level of development and high dependence of local people on natural resources for primary livelihood needs resulted in degradation of Zagros forests and rangelands. Along with these factors, since the last decade, climate change including severe drought is an important issue in the world, p...