GIS-based ordered weighted averaging and Dempster-Shafer methods for landslide susceptibility mapping in the Urmia Lake Basin, Iran

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 688-708

  Feizizadeh, Bakhtiar ^a,b   Blaschke, Thomas ^a   Nazmfar, Hossein ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MOHAGHEGH ARDABILI   (Iran)

Author keywords

belief; GIS multicriteria decision analysis; landslide susceptibility mapping; OWA; uncertainty analysis; Urmia Lake Basin

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAKES; LANDSLIDES; MAPPING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); BELIEF; LAKE BASINS; LANDSLIDE CAUSAL FACTORS; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE; MITIGATION; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SLOPE FAILURE; SPATIAL PLANNING;

IRAN; LAKE URMIA;

EID: 84902474349     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2012.749950     Document Type: Article

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