Geospatial Technology in Land Resource Planning and Management

ISBN-13: 9783659326196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 128 str.

Usmani Sheikh Javed;Gandhi S K

Opis

Land plays multidimensional role in maintaining many global processes, therefore sustainable planning and management of land resources is an important issue at the global forum. The process of land resource planning and associated decision-making invariably involves multiple objectives, multiple criteria and multiple social interests and preferences. Such complexity necessitates a systematic approach to the decision-making process to accommodate the multiplicity and multi dimensionality of the problem to improve the reason ability of decisions and to justify the actions to be taken. Application of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is widely spread in resource inventory and mapping, however, the potential of GIS for planning and decision-making couldnt be utilized fully due to its Limited ability to represent judgments, values, arguments and opinions of the decision makers. Integrating GIS and Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods can overcome these limitations.

O autorze

Mr.Sheikh Javed Usmani is M.Phil (Geo-Informatics),MCM & MSc-IT.He is Working with NSA,Ministry Of Defenece as GIS Specialist in Sultanate of Oman,Expert knowledge is in Remote Sensing/Geographic Information Technology & Geo-Spatial Technology.