Identification of flood risk area in the Orontes river basin, Turkey, using multi-criteria decision analyses

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dc.authoridIRVEM, AHMET/0000-0002-3838-1924
dc.contributor.authorIrvem, Ahmet
dc.contributor.authorTopaloglu, Fatih
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-18T20:25:09Z
dc.date.available2024-09-18T20:25:09Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.departmentHatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThe objective of this study was to evaluate flood risk area for the Orontes river basin in Turkey, using the Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) within the Geographic Information Systems. Flood risk areas were evaluated using rainfall, slope, elevations, size of sub-watersheds and soil types. These factors were chosen as the most influential factors for generating the flood risk map. MCDA was performed by adding the weighted flood rankings of all the causative factors, according to their relative importance to each other and to their expected importance in causing floods. ILWIS, GIS software was used for spatial analyses and MCDA. Estimated risk map for the Orontes river basin obtained by adding the weighted flood rankings of all factors classified in five categories. producing risk levels of non-flood, low, moderate, high, and very high. It was found that non-flood accounted for 1252.2 km(2) (15.7%) of the total. low for 1032.3 km(2) (13%), moderate for 1596 km(2) (20%), high for 2607.4 km(2) (32.8%) and very high flood risk area for 1471.4 km(2) (18.5%). The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Turkey mapped the flood area for the Orontes river basin from field measurement and their observations were compared with a generated flood risk map. The comparison showed satisfactory results because observed flood area was determined to be in very high flood risk region in the flood risk map. Thus, flood risk area identification using MCDA is possibly suitable for flood planning and management.en_US
dc.identifier.endpage899en_US
dc.identifier.issn1459-0255
dc.identifier.issue3-4en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84869105525en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityN/Aen_US
dc.identifier.startpage895en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12483/10111
dc.identifier.volume10en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000311600700064en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWfl Publen_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Food Agriculture & Environmenten_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectFlood risk mapen_US
dc.subjectmulti-criteria decision analysesen_US
dc.subjectOrontes river basinen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titleIdentification of flood risk area in the Orontes river basin, Turkey, using multi-criteria decision analysesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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