TY - JOUR ID - 63820 TI - Feasibility of implementing conservation agriculture with TOPSIS multi-criteria technique in GIS (case study: Maroon Basin of Khuzestan Province) JO - Iranian Journal of Biosystems Engineering JA - IJBSE LA - en SN - 2008-4803 AU - Heidarpour, Nosratollah AU - Bahrami, Hoshang AU - Mansoori, Yaghoob AU - Hojati, Saeed AD - Department of Biosystem Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Chamran University, Ahwaz, Iran AD - Department of Biosystem Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz, Iran AD - Department of Science and Soil Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Chamran University, Ahwaz, Iran Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 48 IS - 4 SP - 539 EP - 551 KW - Analytical Hierarchy process KW - GIS KW - Mechanization KW - rotation KW - TOPSIS DO - 10.22059/ijbse.2017.232249.664933 N2 - A GIS-based plan with TOPSIS multi-criteria technique was used to assess the feasibility of implementing conservation agriculture in the Maroon Basin of Khuzestan Province. For this purpose, a total of 17 information layers mechanization-farming including machinery (level of mechanization, operation factor, number of conservation tillage and drill), climatic (temperature and precipitation), topographic (slope and elevation), soil properties (texture, pH, salinity, phosphorus and organic carbon) and water resources (potential and salinity) are considered, to determine the areas most suitable for the crop rotation of canola, chickpea and wheat. Thematic layers for the above parameters were prepared in a GIS environment, classified into 5 categories according to FAO guidelines as: highly suitable, suitable, moderately suitable, marginally suitable and not suitable and weighted with AHP method. Then, prepared layers are ranked with TOPSIS techniques and overlapped in GIS. The results showed that 1.6% (5030 ha) and 14.5% (44595 ha) of the studied area is highly suitable and suitable for implementing conservation agriculture, respectively. UR - https://ijbse.ut.ac.ir/article_63820.html L1 - https://ijbse.ut.ac.ir/article_63820_6505640f7da4fcee30210e6e765d340e.pdf ER -