Application of Decision Theory methods for a soil classification in the Community of Madrid (Spain)

José Antón (), Ana Tarquis, Juan Grau, Elena Sánchez, Antonio Saa and Mari-Cruz Díaz

Annals of Operations Research, 2014, vol. 219, issue 1, 203-229

Abstract: A land classification method was designed for the Community of Madrid (CM), which has lands suitable for either agriculture use or natural spaces. The process started from an extensive previous CM study that contains sets of land attributes with data for 122 types and a minimum-requirements method providing a land quality classification (SQ) for each land. Borrowing some tools from Operations Research (OR) and from Decision Science, that SQ has been complemented by an additive valuation method that involves a more restricted set of 13 representative attributes analysed using Attribute Valuation Functions to obtain a quality index, QI, and by an original composite method that uses a fuzzy set procedure to obtain a combined quality index, CQI, that contains relevant information from both the SQ and the QI methods. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2014

Keywords: Pedology; Soil science; Qualification; Classification; Soil quality; Land capability; Valuation function; Additive valuation; Threshold requirements; Fuzzy set (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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