Site Suitability Analysis for Urban Development: A Review

Geographical Information System (GIS) and Multi Criteria Evaluation (MCE) are the most common techniques used to analyze the potential sites for urban development. These techniques are very simple and flexible for the analysis process. The paper is basically a review of site suitability analysis for urban development. Over the past decade, a significant amount of research has been conducted for finding the suitability of site. Different authors have used various techniques for the land suitability. ArcGIS software were used to analyze different thematic layers for finding suitable areas, for this purpose satellite data were used for creating various layers. Various factors were identified for criteria evaluation. By comparing each factor according to their importance, weights of each factor is generated. Criteria weights and maps were combined using ArcGIS tools. With the help of weights and criteria final suitability map were prepared. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.15063