GIS-based forest fire risk mapping using the analytical network process and fuzzy logic

Hassan Abedi Gheshlaghi, Bakhtiar Feizizadeh and Thomas Blaschke

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2020, vol. 63, issue 3, 481-499

Abstract: This research investigates the efficiency of combining the Analytical Network Process (ANP) and fuzzy logic for developing a fire risk map. Major factors influencing the occurrence of forest fires were identified from the literature. The importance of each factor was determined by an ANP ranking procedure, which yielded the criteria weights, while fuzzy logic was employed for assessing the weights of the subcriteria. Then, GIS-based aggregation functions were employed to produce a fire risk map. In order to validate the results, forest fire locations were identified using field data, satellite images, and national reports. This validation revealed a very high accuracy of 0.819 for the fuzzy ANP model. The results will serve as guidelines for researchers and scientists by introducing new and robust MCDA methods. In general, the mentioned Hybrid method can be applied to early warning, fire suppression resources planning, and allocation work in the study area.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2019.1594726

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