Environmental condition assessment of US military installations using GIS based spatial multi-criteria decision analysis

Environmental Management

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 329-340

  Singer, Steve ^a   Wang, Guangxing ^a   Howard, Heidi ^b   Anderson, Alan ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Decision analysis; Environmental condition; GIS; Military installation; Spatial integration

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT; CANOPY DISTURBANCE; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; EFFECTIVE TOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE; LAND CONDITION; LAND MANAGERS; LANDSCAPE FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE LEVEL; MILITARY INSTALLATIONS; MILITARY TRAINING; MILITARY TRAINING ACTIVITIES; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC METHOD; SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; US MILITARY;

BIODIVERSITY; DECISION THEORY; DYNAMICS; EROSION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MILITARY BASES; SOILS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER QUALITY;

PERSONNEL TRAINING;

DECISION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GIS; MILITARY LAND; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARMY; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPERT SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MILITARY PHENOMENA; NOISE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIAL MULTI CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; TRAINING; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KANSAS; MILITARY FACILITIES; SOIL; WATER SUPPLY;

FORT RILEY; KANSAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864287783     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-012-9873-y     Document Type: Article

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