doi: 10.7763/IJESD.2015.V6.725
Site Selection of Sarein's Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Using the GIS Technique and SAW Method
Seiied Taghi Seiied Safavian1
,
Ebrahim Fataei2 ,
Taghi Ebadi3 ,
Ali Mohamadian4
- 1the Young Researchers and Elite
- 2the Environmental Engineering Department
- 3the Faculty of Environmental Engineering
- 4Technical College, University Dusseldorf
Abstract
With regard to increasing the population growthand increasing the volume and variety of urban wastes, sanitarylandfill procedure is one of the most common excretion ways indifferent countries. There is several ways for locating the wastelandfill sites. In this research it has been tried to select suitablesite for waste landfill of tourist city of Sarein which is placed innorth-western of Ardabil province in Iran country by using theGIS software package and integrating the Saw and AHPmethods. For this purpose, in the first step Sarein's urban wastelandfill site was selected based on Iran's Department ofEnvironment's criteria with applying the GIS software andAHP method.<br>After overlaying of mentioned-criteria maps, four sites wasselected that had maximum score by evaluating of properties ofidentified sites, one of sites was identified as the first priority byusing the SAW method.
Keywords
- Sanitary landfill
- multi-criteria analysis method
- GIS software
- Arbabil
- Iran
How to Cite
Seiied Taghi Seiied Safavian, Ebrahim Fataei, Taghi Ebadi, and Ali Mohamadian, "Site Selection of Sarein's Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Using the GIS Technique and SAW Method," International Journal of Environmental Science and Development, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 934-937, 2015. https://doi.org/10.7763/IJESD.2015.V6.725
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