Appraising the accuracy of GIS-based Multi-criteria decision making technique for delineation of Groundwater potential zones

Water Resources Management

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 4449-4466

  Kumar, Tarun ^a   Gautam, Amar Kant ^b   Kumar, Tinu ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^c Shri Guru Ram Rai (PG) College   (India)

Author keywords

AHP; Groundwater potential zone; Multi criteria decision analysis; Remote sensing and GIS

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LAND USE; MAPS; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS); REMOTE SENSING; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS);

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); GROUND WATER RECHARGE; GROUNDWATER POTENTIALS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING TECHNIQUE; REMOTE SENSING AND GIS; WEIGHTED LINEAR COMBINATIONS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

EID: 84920710147     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: 15731650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-014-0663-6     Document Type: Article

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