Evaluation of the soil fertility for corn production ( Zea Mays ) using the multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA)
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Evaluation of the soil fertility for corn production (Zea Mays) using the multiple‑criteria decision analysis (MCDA) Marzieh Mokarram1 · Mohammad Mehdi Ghasemi2 · Abdol Rassoul Zarei3 Received: 8 May 2020 / Accepted: 4 June 2020 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract The ongoing water deficiencies in arid and semi-arid regions in conjunction with certain nutritional requirements highlight the importance of pinpointing the most optimal locations for cultivating agricultural products with the highest yield. Given the importance of this issue, this study proceeds to prepare soil fertility maps for corn production (Zea Mays L.) in Fars province, Iran. Initially, fuzzy membership functions (FMs) are employed to prepare fuzzy maps for each layer in the geographic information system (GIS), after which feature selection algorithms are deployed to designate the most relevant layers. The layers are then assigned specific weights obtained using a combination of analytic network process (ANP) and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methods to prepare soil fertility maps. The input data consist of organic content (OC), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), manganese (Mn), and copper (Cu). Inverse distance weighting (IDW) is utilized to procure interpolation maps for each layer. Thereafter, zoning maps are obtained using FMs. Ultimately, ANP and AHP models are once again deployed to generate the final overlayered fertility maps for corn production. The results show that combining the ANP method with feature selection (OC, K, Fe, and P) results in higher accuracy than solely applying the AHP method. Thus, incorporating feature selection and ANP methods with both inter and intra-group pair-wise comparison would result in more accurate fertility maps for corn production with lower costs and time complexity. Keywords Corn production · Geographic information system (GIS) · Fuzzy map · Analytic network process (ANP) · Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) · Feature selection algorithm
Introduction One of the most important global challenges of the twentyfirst century, especially in developing countries such as Iran, is the optimal use of lands for supplying the needs of the * Abdol Rassoul Zarei [email protected]; [email protected] Marzieh Mokarram [email protected] Mohammad Mehdi Ghasemi [email protected] 1
Department of Range and Watershed Management, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources of Darab, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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Fars Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Shiraz, Iran
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Department of Range and Watershed Management (Nature Engineering), Faculty of Agriculture, Fasa University, Fasa, Iran
ever-growing population. Despite the limited amounts of land resources, they are currently being exploited to the point of exhaustion, which, in turn, is accompanied by adverse ramifications. To meet the various nutritional demands of the ever-growing global population, certain measures must be taken with respect to the long-ter
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