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Analytical Hierarchy Process for Land Suitability Analysis of Urban Growth in Latakia, Syria
Urban areas keep growing continuously, and cities expand over new land developing it into urban areas. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were used in this study to identify suitable areas to be developed into urban areas and cities. The site suitability analysis provides an appropriate method to detect and propose the unsurpassed and most suitable sites consistent with the main criteria. Integration of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and GIS were used in this study. Therefore, the used criteria are land use, land elevation, land slope, distance from the coastline, distance from water bodies, distance from existing settlements, and road proximity. A pairwise comparison matrix for these criteria was calculated, and the weight for each was created depending on their comparative importance. The final urban suitability map was derivative according to the criteria and their weights. The findings of this paper indicate that more than half of the study area (51%) falls under high suitable areas while the unsuitable areas rate is 3.9% only and the very high suitable area rate is 2.03%. The study grants a vision of urban development planning using GIS practices and points out the substantial limitations that the study area is facing.
Analytical Hierarchy Process for Land Suitability Analysis of Urban Growth in Latakia, Syria
Urban areas keep growing continuously, and cities expand over new land developing it into urban areas. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were used in this study to identify suitable areas to be developed into urban areas and cities. The site suitability analysis provides an appropriate method to detect and propose the unsurpassed and most suitable sites consistent with the main criteria. Integration of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and GIS were used in this study. Therefore, the used criteria are land use, land elevation, land slope, distance from the coastline, distance from water bodies, distance from existing settlements, and road proximity. A pairwise comparison matrix for these criteria was calculated, and the weight for each was created depending on their comparative importance. The final urban suitability map was derivative according to the criteria and their weights. The findings of this paper indicate that more than half of the study area (51%) falls under high suitable areas while the unsuitable areas rate is 3.9% only and the very high suitable area rate is 2.03%. The study grants a vision of urban development planning using GIS practices and points out the substantial limitations that the study area is facing.
Analytical Hierarchy Process for Land Suitability Analysis of Urban Growth in Latakia, Syria
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Reddy, Krishna R. (editor) / Ravichandran, P. T. (editor) / Ayothiraman, R. (editor) / Joseph, Anil (editor) / Ismaeel, Waseem Ahmad (author) / Kumar, J. Satish (author)
International Conference on Civil Engineering Innovative Development in Engineering Advances ; 2023 ; Kattankulathur, India
2024-01-31
11 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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