Computer-based land use suitability maps

Kiefer, R. W.; Robbins, Mary Louise

doi:10.1016/0148-9062(74)91978-0

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“…GIS has been used for location analysis and site selection in a variety of ways over the last 30 years. Application of GIS in site selection started in the 1970s with Kiefer and Robbins (1973). Dobson (1979) carried out a study to explore the best possible site of a power plant in the state of Maryland in the United States.…”

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Ideal location for flood shelter: a geographic information system approach

Sanyal¹,

Lu²

2009

J Flood Risk Management

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Spatial information for efficient flood emergency management is very limited in developing countries. This paper combines cartographic and remotely sensed data to identify the rural settlements that are vulnerable to flood in the Ajay River Basin of West Bengal, India. A European Remote Sensing Satellite‐1 synthetic aperture radar flood scene has been acquired over the Ajay River Basin. Several digital image processing techniques including thresholding have been applied to identify the flood‐affected settlements in the area. The principles of optimum location have been extensively applied through a geographic information system to come up with a map showing the ideal location for elevated concrete structures that can serve as flood shelter for vulnerable communities.

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Section: Flood-shelter Planning For Preparedness and Responsementioning

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Ideal location for flood shelter: a geographic information system approach

Sanyal¹,

Lu²

2009

J Flood Risk Management

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“…The use of a geographical information system (GIS), as a powerful spatial visualization and analysis tool Editorial responsibility: Abbaspour. (Kiefer and Robbins 1973), allows for taking advantage of various data efficiently and accurately (Villacreses et al 2017). In order to create impressive and useful functionality, the design of GIS is based on entering, regulating, retrieving, dissecting, tracing, and visualizing the spatial data (Church 2002).…”

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Project portfolio selection for construction contractors by MCDM–GIS approach

Hashemizadeh

2019

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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In this paper, project portfolio selection (PPS) is considered as one of the main steps in project portfolio management (PPM). PPS which depends on different criteria such as strategic, financial, as well as project specifications is also suggested for construction contractors. Although it is difficult to consider all these criteria, the decision will be inaccurate when some of them are ignored. The most common multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methodologies and geographic information system (GIS) are combined as a method, by which the potential projects obtain a strategic score by the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). Then, they are ranked according to technical criteria by the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). The proposed approach includes three ordinal phases. First, scoring potential projects due to the company strategy is conducted by the AHP to determine strategic-aligned projects (SAPs). Then, SAPs are ranked by TOP-SIS. Finally, the final GIS sheet is prepared by the obtained technical score and communal criteria. This paper provides a clear and comprehensive insight to accept or reject SAPs by form a weighted sheet in GIS. It suggests that CCs select project portfolio according to all the financial and non-financial criteria. This approach can satisfy the PPM principals and resolve some of the shortcomings related to MCDM methods by GIS capacities to reduce complexity so that the decision-makers form project portfolios easily and effectively. This approach is described in a case study.

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