Multicriteria assessment in GIS environments for siting biomass plants

Land Use Policy

Volumn 31, Issue , 2013, Pages 326-335

  Perpiña, Carolina ^a   Martínez Llario, José Carlos ^a   Pérez Navarro, Ángel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomass; GIS; Multicriteria assessment; Sensibility analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CROP PRODUCTION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SITE INVESTIGATION; VEGETATION COVER;

COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84871928803     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.07.014     Document Type: Article

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