GIS-based groundwater spring potential mapping in the Sultan Mountains (Konya, Turkey) using frequency ratio, weights of evidence and logistic regression methods and their comparison

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 411, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 290-308

  Ozdemir, Adnan ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Frequency ratio; GIS; Groundwater potential; Logistic regression; Spring; Weights of evidence

Indexed keywords

AREAS UNDER THE CURVES; DRAINAGE DENSITY; EVIDENCE MODEL; FAULT DENSITY; FREQUENCY RATIOS; GROUNDWATER DEVELOPMENT; GROUNDWATER SPRINGS; LAND USE/COVER; LAND-USE PLANNING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION METHOD; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; POTENTIAL MAP; POTENTIAL MAPPING; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; RELATIVE OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT CAPACITY INDICES; SLOPE ASPECT; SLOPE STEEPNESS; SPRING; STREAM POWER INDEX; STUDY AREAS; THEMATIC MAPS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP; TOPOGRAPHIC WETNESS INDEX; VALIDATION DATA; WEIGHTS OF EVIDENCE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; FORESTRY; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER; LITHOLOGY; MAPS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CURVATURE; DATA SET; DRAINAGE; GIS; GROUNDWATER EXPLORATION; LAND USE PLANNING; LITHOLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPRING WATER; THEMATIC MAPPING; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; WATER PLANNING;

KONYA [TURKEY]; SULTAN MOUNTAINS; TURKEY;

EID: 81555202390     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.010     Document Type: Article

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