Land suitability evaluation criteria for agricultural crop selection: A review

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiranjit Singha ◽  
Kishore Chandra Swain
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Multicriteria Analysis ◽  
Land Suitability ◽  
Cropping Pattern ◽  
Agricultural Crop ◽  
Suitability Analysis ◽  
Gis And Remote Sensing ◽  
Multi Criteria Evaluation

Land suitability study for agriculture is a very important technique in deciding future agricultural cropping pattern, planning and activities. Land suitability analysis is an assessment of an area to determine how proper or appropriate it is for a particular use of the land (such as growing a crop variety) in a particular location. Land suitability tools have been extensively applied to identify better management practices in agricultural areas. Soil and landscape properties are essential in this type of evaluation, fact that makes especially interesting, is the coupling of this type of model with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote sensing (RS). The integration of RS-GIS, Fuzzy-logic and application of Multi-Criteria Evaluation using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) could provide a superior database and guide map for decision makers considering crop land substitution in order to achieve better agricultural production. A review was carried out for different multicriteria analysis to develop land suitability maps. Fuzzy-logic integrated with Multi-Criteria Evaluation in GIS environment found most suitable for agricultural crops.

scholarly journals GEO-TOURISM LAND SUITABILITY ANALYSIS OF CITATAH KARST AREA IN BANDUNG BASIN USING SPATIAL MULTI CRITERIA EVALUATION (SMCE)

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (4 supplement) ◽  
pp. 1346-1353
Author(s):  
Nendi ROHAENDI ◽  
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Emi SUKIYAH ◽  
Dicky MUSLIM ◽  
Athanasius CIPTA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stakeholder Analysis ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Land Suitability ◽  
Karst Area ◽  
Suitability Analysis ◽  
Ecological Disturbance ◽  
Land Suitability Analysis ◽  
Multi Criteria Evaluation ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
Suitable Area

The research goal is to evaluate land suitability for geo-tourism focuses on geology and landscape. Most of the Citatah karst area is natural-based industries or mining in particular. The ecological disturbance is an impetus for decision-makers to choose new use of land to deal with the conservation issues. SMCE techniques that apply geographic information systems (GIS) and analytical hierarchy processes. The use of land is formulated based on policy and stakeholder analysis. The research benefit is the possibility to change the area from mining to a geo-tourism area. There are two important results of research in spatial analysis, namely: intensive and extensive tourism areas, and the rest is for protective or no suitable area of tourism. In conclusion, the land suitability analysis is important for tourism industry development.

Combining current land use and farmers' knowledge to design land-use requirements and improve land suitability evaluation

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feras M. Ziadat ◽  
Kais A. Sultan
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Land Suitability ◽  
Land Evaluation ◽  
Suitability Analysis ◽  
Suitability Evaluation ◽  
Land Suitability Evaluation ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Suitable Area

AbstractLand suitability analysis is very important to assess and propose the most suitable land-use options. The reliability of land suitability evaluation is controlled by choosing the most limiting land characteristics and their ratings for the proposed land utilization types (LUTs). This study aims at examining the possibility of using current land use and farmers' knowledge as a starting point to suggest and/or modify land evaluation criteria, and to improve the land suitability evaluation process. The potential suitability of land for five LUTs (open range, improved range, rainfed barley, drip-irrigated vegetables and drip-irrigated trees) was evaluated near Al-Mafraq in Jordan using the maximum limitation method. The results indicated variable agreement levels between potential land suitability and current land use for different LUTs. Sixteen farms were selected to represent different cases of disagreement between potential suitability and current land use and were visited to explore the farmers' improved management practices adopted to overcome land-use limitations. Using proposed criteria, only 1% of the study area was highly suitable for drip irrigation, whereas most of the area was moderately or marginally suitable for other uses. This represents the conventional land evaluation procedures, which, in most cases, overlook the farmers' knowledge and practices that are adopted in a particular area to overcome biophysical limitations. The ratings for different land characteristics were modified based on comparisons with current land use, and by referring to farmers’ adopted management practices. Using modified criteria, the highly suitable area for drip-irrigated vegetables increased by 18% and the highly suitable area for drip-irrigated trees increased by 25%. The results emphasized that the consideration of the farmer's indigenous knowledge and current land use improve the land evaluation process, which leads to better utilization of limited land resources in fragile environments.

scholarly journals GIS and remote sensing techniques in Controlled Environment Agriculture: A review

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-23
Author(s):  
Abdulrahim M. Al-Ismaili
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Database Management ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Database Management System ◽  
Land Suitability ◽  
Aerial Images ◽  
Controlled Environment ◽  
Suitability Analysis ◽  
Gis And Remote Sensing ◽  
Controlled Environment Agriculture

Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) are useful tools in environmental monitoring, evaluation and analysis for various sectors including agriculture. This paper reviews the applications of GIS, RS and the integration of both techniques in the agricultural field, in general, and Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), in particular. More emphasis is given to their applications in arid areas and Oman is taken as a case study. GIS techniques have been used in the mapping of soil and water quality, spatial assessment for water quantity stress, land suitability, pest and disease distribution of crops as well as delineating and generating database management systems (DBMS) for protected cultivations. In Oman, GIS was only employed to analyse the spatio-temporal dynamics of land use changes as affected by external factors and greenhouses as an example in northern part. RS was also utilised to map the changes in land cover and their uses, detect and map soil salinity, and monitor agricultural droughts. In CEA, RS was utilised for mapping, detection and classification of greenhouses through aerial images and satellites. In Oman, negligible study was documented on the use of RS techniques in the CEA field. The integration of both techniques has proven its capability in mapping, evaluating and managing natural resources and greenhouse distribution and generating database management system in agriculture and CEA fields. Sophisticated geostatistical analysis models based on Multi-criteria analysis using Fuzzy-logic and Analytic Hierarchy Process could be a good platform for trade-off analysis for land suitability analysis and optimal location of CEA in challenging agriculture like Oman.

Site Suitability Analysis for Water Conservation Using AHP and GIS Techniques: A Case Study of Upper Sina River Catchment, Ahmednagar (India)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yogesh Badhe ◽  
Ravindra Medhe ◽  
Tushar Shelar
Keyword(s):  
Water Conservation ◽  
Soil Depth ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Suitability Analysis ◽  
Site Suitability ◽  
Gis Techniques ◽  
Multi Criteria Evaluation ◽  
Conservation Activity ◽  
Suitable Site

The site suitability for construction of water conservation structures is an important step towards groundwater conservation in arid and semi-arid regions. Water is the most crucial for maintaining an environment and ecosystem which is helpful to sustaining all forms of the life. The increasing water scarcity day to day has been one of the common problems over a period of time. On top of it, when the area is a part of rain shadow zone like Ahmednagar district, water conservation activities are become more important. The present study aims to identify the suitable zones for water conservation activity. Multi- criteria evaluation is carried out using Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques to help the choice makers in defining suitable site for construction of water conservation structures. Different layers which were considered for multi-criteria evaluation: slope, land use land cover, soil texture, lithology, soil depth, soil erosion, wells, lineaments and drainage network. Analytical Hierarchy Processes (AHP) is used for weighted sum to find suitable sites for implementation of water conservation activity using selected criterions. The site suitability map was classified into four classes: highly suitable, moderately suitable, less suitable and not suitable with area of 19.19%, 26%, 49.03% and 5.78, respectively. This map will help for selection of suitable sites for construction of Mati Nala Bund (MNB), Check Dam, Cement Nala Bund (CNB) and Continuous Contour Trenches (CCT) for conservation of groundwater resource in the region.

scholarly journals Agroforestry land suitability analysis in the Eastern Indian Himalayan region

2021 ◽  
pp. 100199
Author(s):  
Arun Jyoti Nath ◽  
Rakesh Kumar ◽  
N. Bijayalaxmi Devi ◽  
Pebam Rocky ◽  
Krishna Giri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Suitability ◽  
Himalayan Region ◽  
Suitability Analysis ◽  
Indian Himalayan Region ◽  
Land Suitability Analysis
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