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Selected Topics in AGS

First Semester 2007



Prerequisite:

Course objectives: · To strengthening the capability of students in using multicriteria decision making analysis for solving complex problems in agriculture and natural resource management. · To enable students in using advanced capability of GIS to implement geostatistical analysis of spatial data commonly used in agricultural planning.


Course Description: Selected topics related to current techniques in multi-criteria decision analysis, land evaluation and geostatistical analysis for students who are interested in using advanced techniques in a geographic information system (GIS) for real world problem solving.

Instructor:  Chanchai Sangchyoswat (chanchai@chiangmai.ac.th)

Class meeting:  MCC Lecture Room 4 MW 1:30-3:00 p.m.  

Practicum: .

Course schedule:
 

Week
Lectures
Lab Assignments
File Attach
1

Spatial Decision-Making Analysis

·         Introduction to Spatial Decision Making and Multiple Criteria

      Decision Making (MCDM)

      
2

- Evaluation Criteria
- Decision Alternatives and Constraints

     
3
 Criterion Weighting Techniques      
4
 Decision Rules      
5
 MCDM Techniques      
6
 Integrating Analytic Hierarchy Process with GIS      
7

Land Evaluation Using GIS

  • FAO framework
  • Land quality evaluation
     
8
Mid-term
9

Overall suitability rating
Economic land evaluation

     
10
 Implementing land evaluation in GIS      
11

Modeling in GIS

  • Review of a geodatabase
     
12
 ArcGIS Model Builder      
13
 Building land evaluation model      
14
 Building fuzzy land evaluation model      
15
 Final Project      
 
Final Exam


Recommended  Books:

  Malczewski, J. 1999. GIS and Multicriteria Decision Analysis. John Wiley & Sons Inc

Course Evaluation:

            Mid-term exam 35%; assignments and the final project 30%; final exam 35%.

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