Land use suitability analysis using an approach combining GIS, regionalization, and PROMETHEE II

Figures & data

Figure 1. Steps of the proposed approach for land-use suitability analysis.

Figure 2. Space regionalization.

Figure 3. Municipality of Béni mester.

Figure 4. Map of the criterion: proximity to agglomerations (a) and the final constraint mask(b).

Figure 5. Regionalization (a) and vectorization (b) of the study area.

Figure 6. The final ranking of sites using PROMETHEE II.

Table 1. Parameters associated with each criterion used in PROMETHEE II.

	Proximity to agglomerations	Proximity to road network	Proximity to watercourses	Land slope	Land acquisition cost
Q	400 m	500 m	1000 m	3°	2000 DA/m^2
P	800 m	1000 m	2000 m	6°	8000 DA/m^2
W	4	2	3	1	2
Preference Direction	Increasing	Decreasing	increasing	decreasing	decreasing

Figure 7. Final ranking of pixels using the WLC method.