PMID- 27848986
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180503
LR  - 20181113
IS  - 2045-2322 (Electronic)
IS  - 2045-2322 (Linking)
VI  - 6
DP  - 2016 Nov 16
TI  - Near-Earth object hazardous impact: A Multi-Criteria Decision Making approach.
PG  - 37055
LID - 10.1038/srep37055 [doi]
LID - 37055
AB  - The impact of a near-Earth object (NEO) may release large amounts of energy and 
      cause serious damage. Several NEO hazard studies conducted over the past few 
      years provide forecasts, impact probabilities and assessment ratings, such as the 
      Torino and Palermo scales. These high-risk NEO assessments involve several 
      criteria, including impact energy, mass, and absolute magnitude. The main 
      objective of this paper is to provide the first Multi-Criteria Decision Making 
      (MCDM) approach to classify hazardous NEOs. Our approach applies a combination of 
      two methods from a widely utilized decision making theory. Specifically, the 
      Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology is employed to determine the 
      criteria weights, which influence the decision making, and the Technique for 
      Order Performance by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) is used to obtain a 
      ranking of alternatives (potentially hazardous NEOs). In addition, NEO datasets 
      provided by the NASA Near-Earth Object Program are utilized. This approach allows 
      the classification of NEOs by descending order of their TOPSIS ratio, a single 
      quantity that contains all of the relevant information for each object.
FAU - Sanchez-Lozano, J M
AU  - Sanchez-Lozano JM
AD  - University Centre of Defence at the Spanish Air Force Academy, MDE-UPCT. 
      C/Coronel Lopez Pena, s/n. 30720 Santiago de la Ribera, Murcia, Spain.
FAU - Fernandez-Martinez, M
AU  - Fernandez-Martinez M
AD  - University Centre of Defence at the Spanish Air Force Academy, MDE-UPCT. 
      C/Coronel Lopez Pena, s/n. 30720 Santiago de la Ribera, Murcia, Spain.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20161116
PL  - England
TA  - Sci Rep
JT  - Scientific reports
JID - 101563288
PMC - PMC5111055
EDAT- 2016/11/17 06:00
MHDA- 2016/11/17 06:01
PMCR- 2016/11/16
CRDT- 2016/11/17 06:00
PHST- 2016/07/01 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/10/24 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/11/17 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/11/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/11/17 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2016/11/16 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - srep37055 [pii]
AID - 10.1038/srep37055 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Sci Rep. 2016 Nov 16;6:37055. doi: 10.1038/srep37055.