PMID- 23644589
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20131212
LR  - 20130527
IS  - 1095-8630 (Electronic)
IS  - 0301-4797 (Linking)
VI  - 125
DP  - 2013 Aug 15
TI  - Spatial UTA (S-UTA) - a new approach for raster-based GIS multicriteria 
      suitability analysis and its use in implementing natural systems for wastewater 
      treatment.
PG  - 41-54
LID - S0301-4797(13)00207-7 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.03.035 [doi]
AB  - The identification of sites for locating new natural systems for wastewater 
      treatment (NSWT), such as stabilization ponds and constructed wetlands, should 
      combine multiple crucial factors (environmental, design, social and economic), 
      and thus the implementation of multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) methods is 
      required. In addition, the spatial nature of the site selection process 
      necessitates the use of geographic information systems (GISs) because they are 
      unanimously recognized as the most appropriate tool capable of supporting 
      sophisticated spatial decision making. The resulting multicriteria spatial 
      decision support systems (MC-SDSSs) provide a consistent framework for dealing 
      with conflicting objectives while integrating the decision makers' (DMs') 
      preferences in spatially related patterns/problems. A map-based, interactive 
      UTAII implementation is presented, which provides a link between a 
      well-understood decision support method and exploratory geographic visualization. 
      Spatial UTA (S-UTA) is applied in a real case study concerning the ranking of 
      candidate sites for implementing natural systems for wastewater treatment in the 
      Evros-Rodopi prefectures of northeastern Greece. Finally, the obtained results 
      are compared with those derived using other MCDM approaches to evaluate the 
      performance of S-UTA in GIS-based land use suitability analyses.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Demesouka, O E
AU  - Demesouka OE
AD  - Production Engineering and Management Dept., Democritus University of Thrace, 
      Vas. Sofias 12, 67100 Xanthi, Greece. odemesou@pme.duth.gr
FAU - Vavatsikos, A P
AU  - Vavatsikos AP
FAU - Anagnostopoulos, K P
AU  - Anagnostopoulos KP
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20130503
PL  - England
TA  - J Environ Manage
JT  - Journal of environmental management
JID - 0401664
SB  - IM
MH  - Decision Making
MH  - *Geographic Information Systems
MH  - Water Purification/*methods
EDAT- 2013/05/07 06:00
MHDA- 2013/12/18 06:00
CRDT- 2013/05/07 06:00
PHST- 2012/10/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/03/06 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2013/03/12 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/05/07 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/05/07 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/12/18 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0301-4797(13)00207-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.03.035 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Environ Manage. 2013 Aug 15;125:41-54. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.03.035. Epub 
      2013 May 3.