Analysis of Urban Development Suitability

This chapter applies multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) within a GIS to the problem of land suitability assessment in Dhaka. A total of eight factors extracted from a spatial database were used as predictors with the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) followed by weighted linear combination (WLC) being u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chakma, S.
Other Authors: Ashraf Dewan
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Springer 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/48184