Land capability evaluation for ecotourism development in ilam province, a gis approach;Avaliação da capacidade da terra para desenvolvimento de ecoturismo na província de Ilam, uma abordagem com utilização de SIG

Boletim de Ciencias Geodesicas

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 107-125

  Ahmadi, Mehdi ^a   Asgari, Shamsollah ^b   Ghanavati, Ezatollah ^a  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Agriculture and Natural Resources Reserch Center of Ilam Provience   (Iran)

Author keywords

Boolean Algebra; Ecotourism Development; Geographic Information System; Ilam Province (Iran); Land Capability Evaluation; Remote Sensing

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOTOURISM; GIS; SATELLITE DATA; SOFTWARE; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM MARKET; ZONING SYSTEM;

ILAM; IRAN;

EID: 84925633849     PISSN: 14134853     EISSN: 19822170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1982-21702015000100008     Document Type: Article

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