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Site selection Criteria and EvaluationOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Constructing a public building is a process that consumes a lot of funds,
and any insufficiently studied decisions concerning this issue may lead to losses
and consequently non-optimum usage of these funds. This returns mainly to
lack of studies, exaggeration in simplifying complicated issues and ignoring
relevant criteria and advanced techniques and tools that must be used.
An important example is the site selection process of a new proposed
public building where many important factors such as safety factors,
environmental factors, services / utilities factors, site geotechnical factors,
topographic factors, demand factors, regulations / constraints factors and site
status factors may be ignored. The whole issue is reduced in an only one factor
which is the availability of land parcels regardless of the suitability of the site
and the need of a public building in that place. This may result in spending a lot
of money to build a new public building which may show later unsuitability for
its function and a lot of complaints by its users and consequently bad
performance or even failure from the functioning point of view.
For all what was previously mentioned, it was very important to study
how to carry out the process of optimum site selection for public buildings in a
proper and efficient way.
The thesis aims to integrate several relevant advanced sciences and
techniques such as Information Technology (I1’), Geographic Information
Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS), demography, and Global Positioning
Systems (GPS) through making the best use of their advantages and tools to
support the optimum site selection for public buildings.
One of the main objectives of the thesis is to follow an active and logical
policy to carry out the process of optimum site selection for public buildings
within urban areas - where availability of land parcels is the basic factor through
building an optimum site suitability and evaluation model that evaluates all the available land parcels and identifies the most suitable one that best fulfils
the relevant factors resulting in an optimum site selection for the public building
within the available land parcels.
This takes place through a pilot project using the spatial and surface
analysis techniques to produce categorized and total suitability maps in order to
determine and evaluate the most suitable sites for constructing the public
building.
Another main objective is to follow an effective and logical policy to
carry out the process of optimum site selection for public buildings within rural
areas - where required candidate sites can be allocated - through building an
optimum site suitability and selection model that takes into consideration all the
possible relevant site selection factors, weighting them, excluding unsuitable
areas and evaluating the candidate sites resulting in an optimum site selection
for the public building.
This takes place through a pilot project using spatial and surface analysis
techniques in addition to spectral analysis to produce categorized and total
suitability maps in order to determine the most suitable sites for constructing the
public building. Network analysis is used later for optimizing site selection.
The thesis consists of seven chapters starting with the introduction, then
the three chapters representing the theoretical component that discusses the three
main issues needed for the latter applications. Tbese are : Site selection criteria
and evaluation, relevant data sources, models, and integration and finally GIS
and RS fundamental analytic tools supporting the site selection process, then the
two chapters representing the applications component are presented. Finally, the
thesis ends with the summary, conclusions and recommendations.
Keywords: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS),
Information technology (IT), Global Positioning Systems CGPS), and Mapping.