Application of spatial analytical hierarchy process model in land use planning

作者：Zarkesh Mir Masoud Kheirkhah; Ghoddusi Jamal; Zaredar Narges^*; Soltani Mohammad Jafar; Jafari Soudabe; Ghadirpour Ali

来源：Journal of Food Agriculture and Environment, 2010, 8(2): 970-975.

• Multi objective land allocation
• irrigated agriculture
• rain fed agriculture
• urban development
• decision support system
• land evaluation
• multi criteria decision system
• Iran
• suitability index
• Taleghan Basin

Growing use of land resources increases the importance of land use planning studies. For this purpose, extended costly and time-consuming studies were carried out which involved wide ranges of environmental, social and economic considerations. There exist variable failures in traditional methods such as lack of a proper handles various criteria and inconsistency of expert opinion in judging relative importance of each criterion which are totally time consuming and costly. This study essentially aims to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) using spatial analytical hierarchy method as one of the multi criteria evaluation methods. As a powerful tool, spatial analytical hierarchy method assists decision makers to determine the most suitable areas for different land uses (rain fed and irrigated agricultures, rangelands and urban development). For this purpose, a lot of criteria like soil, climatic, topographic and socioeconomic parameters were selected. This study effectively represents the handled land use planning analysis. Also, the result of this research indicate that spatial analytical hierarchy method is a powerful decision support system in site selection and land allocation according to various environmental and socioeconomic factors.

• 出版日期2010-4