Title: Site selection for landfills using GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis – a case study of National Capital Territory of Delhi, India

Authors: Amrapali Tiwari; G. Sreenivasan; Vinod Kumar Sharma

Addresses: Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, India ' Regional Remote Sensing Centre – Central, NRSC, ISRO, Nagpur, India ' Regional Remote Sensing Centre – North, NRSC, ISRO, New Delhi, India

Abstract: Landfill site selection in an urban area like National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi is a challenging task due to shortage of suitable land and other environmental, economic and social parameters. This study focusses on the utilisation of geographic information system, open-source libraries and remote sensing for identification of potential landfill sites in Delhi NCT. Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and other GIS-based approaches are used for analysing various natural parameters derived using remote sensing satellite data products. Resourcesat LISS-III and Sentinel-2 multispectral satellite data is used for deriving the required parametric layers. Zones in the vicinity of monuments, transport, canals, drainages, lineaments are avoided altogether. Results reveal overall, most suitable places for landfill site in study area is around 4.05 sq. km (0.27%), moderately suitable places are 14.68 sq. km (0.98%), least suitable places are 25.46 sq. km (1.71%) and not suitable places is 1,419.11 sq. km (95.62%).

Keywords: geographic information system; GIS; multi-criteria decision analysis; MCDA; Geospatial Data Abstraction Library; GDAL; open-source libraries; Delhi NCT; remote sensing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGENVI.2023.128639

International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 2023 Vol.22 No.1, pp.1 - 22

Received: 06 Aug 2021
Accepted: 29 Jun 2022
Published online: 31 Jan 2023 *