caa a22 4500 605464081 CHVBK 20210128100256.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10499-014-9818-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10499-014-9818-y Land suitability evaluation for brackish water aquaculture development in coastal area of Hormozgan, Iran [Elektronische Daten] [Abouzar Hadipour, Freydoon Vafaie, Vahid Hadipour] Land suitability analysis is a prerequisite for successful aquaculture, and site selection affects both the success and sustainability of any aquaculture development. There is an urgent need for appropriate methodology to assist planners for site selection in aquaculture development. Site selection can be viewed as a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. The analytical hierarchy process (AHP) is a proven, effective method used to solve problem of site selection. This paper applied geographic information systems (GIS), the AHP method, and MCDM to identify areas that are suitable for shrimp aquaculture development in coastal area of Hormozgan, Iran. To create models, combination of layers was carried out through Boolean operators and weighted linear combination (WLC) method. After performing the combination models, the results are presented and compared. Evaluation of the results shows that the most of the areas classified suitable in WLC model coincide with the existing shrimp farms and this indicates the validity of the GIS-based WLC model. The areas with the highest priorities are situated in eastern part of the study area. Since existing shrimp farms cover a small extent in the study area, further expansion of shrimp farming to other areas is possible. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2014 GIS nationallicence Site selection nationallicence AHP nationallicence Aquaculture nationallicence WLC nationallicence Hadipour Abouzar Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran aut Vafaie Freydoon Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran aut Hadipour Vahid Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran aut Aquaculture International Springer International Publishing 23/1(2015-02-01), 329-343 0967-6120 23:1<329 2015 23 10499 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-014-9818-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-014-9818-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hadipour Abouzar Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vafaie Freydoon Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hadipour Vahid Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Aquaculture International Springer International Publishing 23/1(2015-02-01), 329-343 0967-6120 23:1<329 2015 23 10499