MASCOT: Multi-Criteria Analytical SCOring Tool for ArcGIS Desktop

Pierre Lacroix (), Helder Santiago () and Nicolas Ray ()
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Pierre Lacroix: Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, EnviroSPACE Laboratory, Battelle – Building D, 7 route de Drize, CH-1227 Carouge, Switzerland;
Helder Santiago: 7 rue de Dizerens, CH-1205 Genève, Switzerland
Nicolas Ray: Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, EnviroSPACE Laboratory, Battelle – Building D, 7 route de Drize, CH-1227 Carouge, Switzerland;

International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), 2014, vol. 13, issue 06, 1135-1159

Abstract: Multicriteria Analytical SCOring Tool (MASCOT) is a decision-support tool based on spatial analysis that can score items (points, lines, and polygons) as a function of their Euclidian distance to other data (points, lines, polygons, rasters). MASCOT is integrated with ArcGIS 9.3.1 and makes it possible to achieve a complete workflow that may include data preparation and grouping of factors by theme, weighting, scoring, post-processing and decision-making. To achieve the weighting process, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been integrated. MASCOT was originally developed for the demining community, with the purpose of prioritizing clearance of mine hazards as a function of their distance to a set of predefined and measurable factors. We show here an example based on mine action data, but MASCOT is not limited to this community and many other application fields will benefit from it.

Keywords: AHP; ArcGIS desktop; Euclidian distance; priority; scoring; SDSS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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