Development of GIS-MCDA

The Peri-Urban Landscape Interface Contribution to Flood Management of the Metropolis, the Case of Phnom Penh

“…Multiple tools could be used in creating flood risk maps; one such method is the weighted sum model. In fact, due to its flexibility, this model has been applied in various Geographic Information System (GIS) research, including environmental management, susceptibility mapping for natural hazards, suitability modeling for hydrology and water resources, and urban and regional planning 33) . This model is a multi-criteria evaluation and decision-making method that can determine the best alternative based on the valuation of diverse factors.…”

Using GIS to improve public health emergency response in rural areas during the COVID‐19 crisis: A case study of South Carolina, US

“…Based on these talks, an interprofessional team from Clemson University, comprised of Architecture + Health and GIS experts, and the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), in collaboration with state-wide public health experts, collaborated in the development of a GIS suitability model to identify top priority ZIP codes for COVID-19 testing sites in South Carolina. A suitability model is often referred to as a GIS-based multicriteria decision analysis (GIS-MCDA) approach that takes into consideration the most important factors to consider when establishing a new community testing site (Malczewski & Rinner, 2015).…”

“…Table 1 illustrates the role of the experts. Table 2 displays After the evaluation of qualitative comments by experts on the first survey, a final list of criteria was selected for the second stage of the survey using criterion weighting (Table 3) (Malczewski & Rinner, 2015). The same panel of experts was invited via an online survey to weigh each criterion relative to the other criteria, achieving an overall score of 100 (Figure 4).…”