An avalanche hazard model for Bitlis Province, Turkey, using GIS based multicriteria decision analysis

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 523-535

  Selçuk, Levent ^a  

^a YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Avalanche; Bitlis; Geographic information system (GIS); Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA); Sensitivity analysis; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; AVALANCHE; DECISION ANALYSIS; GIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MAPPING; MASS MOVEMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BITLIS; TURKEY;

EID: 84879039599     PISSN: 13000985     EISSN: 1303619X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3906/yer-1201-10     Document Type: Article

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