Multi-criteria site selection for fire services: The interaction with analytic hierarchy process and geographic information systems

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2127-2134

  Erden, T ^a   Coskun M Z ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; FIRE MANAGEMENT; GIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING METHOD; RASTER; SITE SELECTION; URBAN PLANNING;

ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 77958019735     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-10-2127-2010     Document Type: Article

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