A simple, portable, spatial multi-criteria analysis shell - MCAS-S

MODSIM05 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Advances and Applications for Management and Decision Making, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1532-1538

  Hill, Michael J ^a   Lesslie, Rob ^a   Barry, Andrew ^b   Barry, Simon ^a  

^a BUREAU OF RURAL SCIENCES   (Australia)

^b Barry Computing Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coupled human environment systems; Multi criteria analysis; Natural resource management; Spatial decision support

Indexed keywords

ARC-INFO; ARCVIEW; AUSTRALIA; AUTOMATIC UPDATES; COGNITIVE MAPPING; COMPOSITE INDICATORS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DECISION TOOL; DISPLAY WINDOWS; FLOATING POINTS; FLOW DIAGRAM; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; GRID DATA; GRID RESOLUTION; HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT SYSTEMS; INPUT DATAS; LIVE UPDATES; MATRIX; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; POLICY MAKERS; PRE-PROCESSING OF DATA; RADAR PLOTS; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT; SPATIAL EXTENT; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; USER ACCESS; COMMUNITY DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS;

AIRFOILS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA HANDLING; DATA VISUALIZATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; RADAR; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); VISUALIZATION; C++ (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; GRAPHIC METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; DECISION MAKING;

EID: 80053118511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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