Iranian Association of Environmental Health (IAEH)
Abstract
Geographic Information System (GIS) is the best suitable system for
land evaluation. In this research, at the first step, the Makhdoum's
model is introduced‚ and then Hamadan Province, from aquaculture
point of view and capabilities of the lands to fulfill aquaculture
activities is evaluated. GIS was used for the mentioned purposes. The
software used was Arc View (version 3.2 a), with the UTM projection.
For evaluation, Mc Hark method of Maps overlaying was utilized.
According to the results, the suitable surface area for aquaculture
activities was introduced, which was equal to 13.1 percent of Hamadan
Province. According to the evaluations, this province has limited
potentials for aquaculture activities. Therefore, it is necessary to
pay attention to these limitations in development plans