Multi-criteria decision-making using GIS-AHP for air pollution problem in Igdir Province/Turkey
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Multi-criteria decision-making using GIS-AHP for air pollution problem in Igdir Province/Turkey Fatma Sahin 1 & Mehmet Kazım Kara 1 & Ahmet Koc 2 & Gökhan Sahin 3 Received: 15 March 2020 / Accepted: 11 June 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Today, environmental problems are increasing and threatening nature and human health. Air pollution is at the top of this threat. Air, the main source of life, is indispensable for humans and living things. Therefore, air pollution causes mass results. Many air pollution studies and many solution techniques have been proposed in the literature to deal with the air pollution problem. In this study, it is called analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and geographic information systems (GIS), which is one of the multi-criteria decision making methods used in the investigation of air pollution in Iğdır city center and its four districts: Tuzluca, Iğdır Central, Karakoyunlu, and Aralik. In this study, spatial analysis of the pollutant parameters using the GIS-AHP technique was performed with the help of the data obtained from Iğdır Weather Monitoring Stations. By determining the pollutant parameters, pollution distribution maps were created, and station-based statistics were evaluated with dynamic mapping. For the first time, 15 parameters of weather and topographic features were used. Based on this result, it is obvious that Iğdır center is the worst place in the air pollution problem for GIS-AHP method. It varies for 15 parameters using GIS-AHP, compared with the review of locations on a daily basis. The aim of this study is primarily to investigate possible places of air pollution. Also, by comparing the results of two methods, GIS and AHP, more accurate results are given. Keywords Nitrogen oxides . Sulfur dioxide . Nitrogen dioxide . Ozone . Particulate matter . Air pollution . Statistical learning . Geographical information systems (GIS) . Analytic hierarchy process (AHP)
Introduction In this study, the records of climate and air pollutants belong to the city center of Iğdır (Fig. 1) (Koç and Koç 2018, Koc et al. 2019). The topographic features of the location (Fig. 2) of a settlement center affect the degree of air pollution and the residence time of the polluted air on the settlement. As with other physical environmental conditions, the topographical feature
Editorial Responsibility: Philippe Garrigues * Gökhan Sahin [email protected] 1
Biometry Genetics Unit, Department of Animal Science, Agricultural Faculty, Iğdır University, Iğdır, Turkey
2
Diyarbakir Vocational School of Technical Sciences, Depertment of Park and Gardens Plants, Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey
3
Department of Electric Electronic Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Igdir University, 76000 Igdir, Turkey
is not a factor that causes air pollution; it affects its degree and the duration of the environment. Pollution is more effective in the settlement areas in the trough, which is a topography or a trough that extends perpendicular to t
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