Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process to identify parameter weights for developing a water quality index

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 75, Issue , 2017, Pages 220-233

  Sutadian, Arief Dhany ^a,b   Muttil, Nitin ^a   Yilmaz, Abdullah Gokhan ^a   Perera, B J C ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b The West Java Environmental Protection Agency   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

AHP; Water quality parameters; Weights; West java; WQIs

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FISH; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; OXYGEN; SURVEYS; WATER QUALITY;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); OXYGEN DEPLETION; WATER QUALITY INDEXES; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS; WATERBODIES; WEIGHTS; WEST JAVAS; WQIS;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; MICROBIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RIVER WATER; STAKEHOLDER; WATER QUALITY;

INDONESIA; WEST JAVA;

EID: 85008312101     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.12.043     Document Type: Article

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