Groundwater potential mapping at Kurdistan region of Iran using analytic hierarchy process and GIS

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 7059-7071

  Rahmati, Omid ^a   Nazari Samani, Aliakbar ^a   Mahdavi, Mohamad ^a   Pourghasemi, Hamid Reza ^b   Zeinivand, Hossein ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c LORESTAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

AHP; Geographic information systems; Groundwater potential mapping; Iran; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DATA ACQUISITION; DRAINAGE BASIN; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GIS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; LINEAMENT; LITHOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REMOTE SENSING;

IRAN; KORDESTAN [IRAN];

EID: 84940438534     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-014-1668-4     Document Type: Article

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