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Vol. 2 No. 02 (2021)

Articles

A GIS-based AHP Method for Groundwater Potential Zone Assessment: A Review

https://doi.org/10.38094/jgier2237

Published 2021-12-29

  • Wassfi H. Sulaiman
    • ,
  • Hazhir Karimi
    • ,
  • Yaseen T. Mustafa

Wassfi H. Sulaiman
Department of Environmental Science, Fuclty of Science, Univerosty of Zakho, Zakho, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Hazhir Karimi
Department of Environmental Science, Fuclty of Science, Univerosty of Zakho, Zakho, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Yaseen T. Mustafa
Department of Environmental Science, Fuclty of Science, Univerosty of Zakho, Zakho, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Abstract

Scientific and academic researches and studies trying to present a multi-range of techniques and methods focusing on groundwater pollution, potentials, assessment, and prediction, Groundwater is the most important resource of fresh water now and many researchers trying to cover all about this resource to get sustainable development. This review aims to create an overview of groundwater analysis and forecasting methods. The study is based on the need to select and group research papers into best-defined methodological categories. The article gives an overview of recent advancements in groundwater potential zone analysis approaches, as well as ongoing research objectives based on that overview. This review has overviewed papers and researches been published last decade 2010 -2020 have been done depending on the data sources from the global online database, which could obtain many papers and research studying the groundwater potential zones and other aspects related to groundwater.  The aim of reviewing multiple types of research and papers on determining groundwater potential zones by applying the best techniques and selecting the most suitable factors that affect groundwater potential zones.

Keywords

Groundwater-potential zone, Multi-criteria decision making, GIS, Analytic hierarchy process (AHP)

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