Land suitability assessment for maize farming using a GIS-AHP method for a semi- arid region, Iran

The aim of this study was to generate land suitability maps for maize farming in calcareous and saline-sodic soils in the Marvdasht plain, Iran. An analytic hierarchy process (AHP) multi-criteria method integrated with GIS and geostatictic was employed to estimate weighting of soil properties, clima...

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Main Authors: Behnam Tashayo, Afshin Honarbakhsh, Mohammad Akbari, Mobin Eftekhari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-07-01
Series:Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences
Subjects:
GIS
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1658077X20300217