Site Suitability Analysis for Urban Development Using GIS Based Multicriteria Evaluation Technique: A Case Study of Mussoorie Municipal Area, Dehradun District, Uttarakhand, India

Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 417-424

  Kumar, Manish ^a   Shaikh, Vasim Riyasat ^a  

^a KUMAUN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process; GIS; Multicriteria evaluation (MCE); Pairwise comparison matrix; Site suitability

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; GIS; IKONOS; LAND EVALUATION; MAP; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SOFTWARE; THEMATIC MAPPING; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

DEHRADUN; INDIA; MUSSOORIE; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 84878771383     PISSN: 0255660X     EISSN: 09743006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12524-012-0221-8     Document Type: Article

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