The research study utilizes Multi Criteria Evaluation (MCE) method in geographic information systems (GIS) environment and uses MCE suitability maps with Cellular Automata (CA) for predicting simulating sustainable urban development scenarios Famagusta City. It represents first scenario-based simulations of the future growth as “do-nothing” “sustainable”. Under do-nothing scenario, Markov Chain...

Abstract Spatial multi‐criteria evaluation (MCE) techniques aid urban planning management by analyzing decision problem alternatives for solutions to help inform decision‐making. However, there is a lack of such methods that incorporate the temporal dimension, an important factor when dynamic landscape and decisions surrounding its changes. A novel spatio‐temporal MCE approach proposed operates...

Tanzania was one of the countries included in a Multi Country Evaluation (MCE) of Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI), coordinated by WHO in 1999-2002. The MCE found that IMCI improved of care for children under 5 years of age, reduced child mortality by 13% and was cost-effective at al, 2004). However, a decade after the introduction of IMCI in Tanzania, training of health work...

ecotourism is based on environmental potential and presents an opportunity for suitable utilization and conservation of the sites under management practices, considering accurate planning, potential of the area and people preferences. the present study is conducted to evaluate the ecotourism potential in miankaleh wildlife refuge. the area is located south of the caspian sea. after defining the...

zagros forests are a treasure of various valuable species of oak in iran and the world. long-term misuse in the past has caused severe degradation in the zagros forests. recently these forests have become national but misuses by local people to make living because of poverty and unemployment are continued. in order to reduce degradation and improve sustainability, ecological capability for exte...

The Kalman recursive algorithm has been very widely used for integrating navigation sensor data to achieve optimal system performances. This paper explores the use of the Kalman filter to extend the aggregation of spatial multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) and to find optimal solutions with respect to a decision strategy space where a possible decision rule falls. The approach was tested in a case...

The identification of the suitable areas for common oat (Avena sativa L.) and naked oat (Avena nuda L.) in China using Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) approach based on GIS is presented in the current article. Climate, topography, soil, land use and oat variety databases were created. Relevant criteria, suitability levels and their weights for each factor were defined. Then the criteria maps we...

The aim of this study was to identify the areas with different levels riverine flood potential (RFP) in Nitra river basin, Slovakia, using multi-criteria evaluation (MCE)-analytical hierarchical process (AHP), geographic information systems (GIS), and seven conditioning factors. RFP basin had not yet been assessed through MCE-AHP. Therefore, methodology used can be useful, especially terms prel...