Use of GIS in siting stabilization pond facilities for domestic wastewater treatment

Gemitzi, Alexandra; Tsihrintzis, Vassiliοs A.; Christou, Odysseas; Petalas, C.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2005.12.022

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“…For that the criterion map of the lower annual temperature T is formed as a function of the elevation z based on measurements regarding 11 observations points in the region of Thrace according to Eq. 9 (Gemitzi et al 2007b). Finally, the criterion of accessibility to the plants for the vehicles and the personnel is defined by the criterion map of the distances from the secondary and tertiary road network.…”

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Land suitability analysis for natural wastewater treatment systems using a new GIS add-in for supporting criterion weight elicitation methods

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Renowned for their ability to deal with spatial problems, commercial GIS software packages can play crucial role in spatial decision making processes, provided that they have tools that allow both private and public organizations to manage and analyze spatial referenced data. In particular, land-use suitability analysis applications are valuable, where the use of conflicting objectives and decision maker's (DMs) preferences is common practice. In order to expand GIS abilities to the consideration of decision criteria, OR/MS researchers during the last two decades strongly pronounce in favor of developing synergies between GIS and multicriteria decision making tools. After a short but comprehensive guide to the processes involved in multicriteria suitability analysis applications, the main objective of the paper is to present an add-in to ESRI's ArcGIS environment that supports hierarchical formations of the decision problem, and a variety of procedures for decision criteria weight estimations. The prototype allows suitability index estimations for ordering alternatives using as decision rule the Weighted Linear Combination. Finally, the add-in is used in a real case study, in which we propose a procedure for finding out suitable candidate locations to implement natural systems for the wastewater treatment in the Evros Prefecture-Northeast Greece.

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Land suitability analysis for natural wastewater treatment systems using a new GIS add-in for supporting criterion weight elicitation methods

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“…The suitability of an SIG for the location of facilities can be seen in several studies, for example in renewable energy installations [5,24], landfills [12,23], bicycle rental facilities, in locating and analysing hydrogen supply stations [27].…”

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Decision model for siting transport and logistic facilities in urban environments: A methodological approach

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Larrodé

Magreñán

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Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

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Please cite this article as: A. Fraile, E. Larrodé, .A. Magreñán, J.A. Sicilia, Decision model for siting transport and logistic facilities in urban environments: A methodological approach, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (2014), http://dx. AbstractThe aim of this paper is to define a decision model that allow, through a Geographic Information System (GIS) to determine in an urban setting, the possible optimal locations of various facilities that would make up a new use for the transport infrastructure or logistics sector. The proposed methodology is based on the superposition of layers in a GIS software, enabling prioritization or exclusion of certain areas depending on whether or not meet certain requirements defined in each of these layers. The formulation used assigns each area of the map one degree of decision which classified all areas the best solution for supporting the solution in the Jenks optimization method. Five case studies of transportrelated facilities and as an example the location of a hydrogen refuelling station is solved taking into account the proposed methodology.

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“…The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) [22], [13] has been incorporated in the GIS technology producing a flexible way of combining various criteria in the siting process [4], [6]. Several studies have been focused on this subject, including evaluation of many factors and aggregation of these factors in many different ways [23], [24], [25], [6], [26], [27], [28]. This section presents a method of determining site suitability for construction of MSW landfills, using the AHP, combined with Fuzzy Function Standardization and Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) techniques [3], in a GIS environment.…”

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Use of GIS and Multi-Criteria Evaluation Techniques in Environmental Problems

Gemitzi

Tsihrintzis

Petalas

2010

Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments

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The aim of the study was to propose and verify a model which, based on multi-criteria evaluation of selected input data, determines the category in terms of the environmentally friendly use of individual skidding technologies for each stand. A farm tractor, skidder, cable system, forwarders, and forwarders in combination with harvesters were selected as model skidding technologies. The selected input parameters included: slope inclination, ground bearing capacity, risk of logging-transportation erosion development, presence and size of obstacles, skidding distance, terrain shape and age of stands. Weights of input parameters for multi-criteria evaluation were defined by means of Saaty's matrix and geometric mean of rows. Stocking and areal representation of spruce and fir were added to the evaluation of forwarder-harvester combination. Different equipment (standard tires, low-pressure tires, wheel tracks) and climatic conditions (dry, wet) were also taken into account in the evaluation of the model. The model was applied to the selected experimental territory in the upper part of the basin of the Oskava River. Utilization of GIS application and method of remote sensing in forestry has a long tradition in the Czech Republic. Forestry has been one of the first pioneers in putting GIS applications and methods of remote sensing into practice. These technologies have become a standard tool for acquiring, updating , analyzing, and presenting spatial data. Both in the world and in the Czech Republic several technical papers and studies focused on the utilization of GIS technologies for the evaluation of forestry transportation network or for the selection of a suitable skidding technology. Two main approaches used to be applied in modelling the process of making forests accessible. The first approach is based on solutions for model conditions which are generally applicable to all situations. These procedures are based on theoretical models. The aim of these models is the creation of a generally applicable model that should be independent of real conditions of the territory which are usually simplified in these models. In the Czech Republic, this approach was primarily promoted by Beneš (1991). The second approach represents solutions which take into account real conditions of the territory, mainly the terrain characteristics. These solutions have gradually prevailed thanks to quick developments in the field of hardware, software, databases, and commercial geographic information systems. The use of digital terrain model (DTM) has enabled modelling real terrain conditions in these models. This category includes for example the models of TERDAS (Shiba 1996), PLANEX (Epstein et al. 2001) or models for the evaluation of skidding and forwarding distance created using the AML programming language (Pacola et al. 1999; Tuček et al. 2003). GIS are also an integral part of models for automatic localization of new forest roads in forests not yet accessible. These solutions are usually based on economic assessment of their design. ...

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Use of GIS in siting stabilization pond facilities for domestic wastewater treatment

Cited by 30 publications

References 14 publications

Land suitability analysis for natural wastewater treatment systems using a new GIS add-in for supporting criterion weight elicitation methods

Land suitability analysis for natural wastewater treatment systems using a new GIS add-in for supporting criterion weight elicitation methods

Decision model for siting transport and logistic facilities in urban environments: A methodological approach

Use of GIS and Multi-Criteria Evaluation Techniques in Environmental Problems

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