Mehdi Ziaei

University of Birjand

Over the last two decades, the focus of studies on the spatial organization of urban systems has shifted noticeably from classical theories such as “the central place theory” to utilizing novel theories based on the network essence of intercity relations, such as “the central flow theory”. This field of urban research, which has emerged under the t...

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The following research presents a GIS-base multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) approach for evaluation/selection of planning and design alternatives. A wide range of decision and management situation used multicriteria decision analysis to solve spatial problems. Various researchers proposed many methods. The objective of this paper is to incorp...

Urbanization causes land cover and land use changes which can lead to deeper social, economic and environmental changes. Planning strategies for sustainable Urbanization require a vast data on natural resources and on socio-economic aspects. GIS and remote sensing have an important role in linkage and analysis of such data. RS-GIS integration can f...

Geographic information system (GIS) are effective tool for decision support, also it is a system for storing, management, analysis and visualizing the data (information). However GIS functions alone disable to facilitate activity thus decision makers developed spatial decision support system (SDSS) which are explicitly designed for solving complex...