Land suitability assessment for wind power plant site selection using ANP-DEMATEL in a GIS environment: case study of Ardabil province, Iran

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6695-6709

  Azizi, Ali ^a   Malekmohammadi, Bahram ^a   Jafari, Hamid Reza ^a   Nasiri, Hossein ^a   Amini Parsa, Vahid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

ANP DEMATEL; Geographical information system (GIS); Iran Ardabil province; Site selection; Wind power plants (WPPs)

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY RESOURCES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REACTIVE POWER; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS; DECISION MAKING TRIAL AND EVALUATION LABORATORIES; DEMATEL; ENGINEERING PROJECT; LAND SUITABILITY ASSESSMENTS; LARGE WIND TURBINES; MAP CLASSIFICATION; WIND POWER PLANT (WPPS);

SITE SELECTION;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; GIS; POWER PLANT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SITE SELECTION; WIND FARM; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION MAKING TRIAL AND EVALUATION LABORATORY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRAN; LAND SUITABILITY ASSESSMENT; MODEL; PRODUCTIVITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WIND POWER; ENVIRONMENT; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; WIND;

ARDABIL; IRAN;

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IRAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POWER PLANTS; WIND;

EID: 84921665542     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-3883-6     Document Type: Article

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