Suitability Modeler is one of the most common applications for a GIS analyst. Suitability Modeler can be us! to determine the best location for site selection decisions, such as placing an object or protecting an area. For example, you can use a suitability model to determine the best location to build a shopping mall, housing development, or ski resort. It can also be us! to identify the best areas for parks, endanger! habitat, or flood control.
Building a suitability model is a nonlinear iterative process. Therefore, you do not have to follow the steps in the suitability model in order. Instead, you can analyze it through a back-and-forth, iterative decision-making process.
We can build a suitability model in five steps:
Determining and preparing criteria data
Creating a suitability model
Converting the values of each criterion into a common suitability scal!
etermining weight criteria against each interactive interaction with clients other and creating a suitability map by combining them
Selecting suitable areas
1. Determining and preparing criteria data
The first step in creating a suitability model is to determine the criteria for the model. Some basic data can be us! directly as input criteria for the model. Other criteria can be deriv! using various Spatial Analyst geoprocessing tools. You cannot derive data within the suitability modeler. However, you can switch between the suitability modeler and the geoprocessing tools. For example, you can derive slope criteria from raster elevation data using the Slope tool.
Creating a suitability model and adding criteria
Suitability Modeler is provid! with the ArcGIS at the december meeting, the board Spatial Analyst add-on license and can be access! from the Analysis tab in ArcGIS be numbers Pro. When Suitability Modeler is open! in this tab, a suitability model group layer will be creat! in the Content section. This layer is us! to store inputs and outputs in the model.
The Suitability Modeler pane contains tabs that include Settings, Suitability , and Locate . In the Settings tab, you can name the model, select the suitability scale, and specify the method to be us! for weighting the criteria.