Comparison of different methods of MCDM to assess GWQ suitability for different purposes (case study of Al-Hamdania Area)
Keywords:
GWQ, MCDM, SDI, NSF, PROMETHEE II, ELECTRE III, SCAbstract
This research aims to compare different methods of Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) named SDI, PROMETHEE II, and ELECTRE III with the standard method NSFI to rank and score the Groundwater Quality (GWQ) of 26 wells in the Al-Hamdaniya area, Nineva governorate, Iraq, during 2019–2020.. The final maps of each method and ranking of suitable areas for different uses of drinking, irrigation, and livestock are done by the GIS program with the help of the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique, which is needed to extract the required weights of the variables. In order to check the results, a validation test named Similarity Coefficient (SC) is made between the methods to show their accuracy. For a general look, it was seen from the final maps that the eastern regions of the study area had good GWQ of all methods, and worsened further as we went to the west of the region The resulted maps showed that there are great convergence values between the SDI and the NSF methods, while both the PROMETHEE II and ELECTRE IV methods showed somewhat high divergence values with the NSF method. The used methods can be classified based on their convergence to the reference method NSF are as follows: SDI, PROMETHEE II and in the last is ELECTRE III .
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