Open AccessUSING MULTI-CRITERIA ANALYSIS FOR THE STUDY OF HUMAN IMPACT ON AGRO-FORESTRY-PASTORAL ECOSYSTEM IN THE REGION OF KHENCHELA (ALGERIA)
Author(s) -
A. Bouzekri,
H. Benmessaoud
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.264
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1682-1777
pISSN - 1682-1750
DOI - 10.5194/isprsarchives-xli-b8-779-2016
Subject(s) - urbanization , forestry , agriculture , ecosystem , geography , work (physics) , water resources , environmental resource management , water resource management , environmental protection , environmental science , ecology , engineering , mechanical engineering , archaeology , biology
The objective of this work is to study and analyze the human impact on agro-forestry-pastoral ecosystem of Khenchela region through the application of multi-criteria analysis methods to integrate geographic information systems, our methodology is based on a weighted linear combination of information on four criteria chosen in our analysis representative in the vicinity of variables in relation to roads, urban areas, water resources and agricultural space, the results shows the effect of urbanization and socio-economic activity on the degradation of the physical environment and found that 32% of the total area are very sensitive to human impact.