Site suitability analysis for natural systems for wastewater treatment with spatial fuzzy analytic hierarchy process

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 125-134

  Anagnostopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Vavatsikos, Athanasios ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b Civil Engineer   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Fuzzy sets; Geographic information systems; Multiple objective analysis; Spatial analysis; Wastewater management

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; CONVENTIONAL ACTIVATED SLUDGES; DECISION MAKERS; FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS); HIERARCHICAL MODEL; LAND-USE PLANNING; LINGUISTIC VARIABLE; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE DECISION ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE-OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS; NATURAL SYSTEMS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUITABILITY ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FUZZY SETS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LAND USE; RECLAMATION;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; LAND USE PLANNING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

EID: 84859293517     PISSN: 07339496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000155     Document Type: Article

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