Application of multicriteria assessment to evaluate climatic and environmental factors in the identification of arid regions in northwestern Mexico

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https://doi.org/10.36825/RITI.12.28.006

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Multicriteria Evaluation, Aridity, Analytical Hierarchy, Fuzzy Logic, GIS

Abstract

In Mexico, arid regions cover more than half of the territory, with desertification, degradation and droughts being the main problems in these ecosystems, caused mainly by climatic events and anthropogenic activities. The objective of this research was to apply multicriteria assessment (MCE) techniques to model factors that favor the increase in aridity, and to be able to identify areas with different levels of aridity in the Northwest region of Mexico by 2023. The Analytical Hierarchy Method (AHP) and Weighted Linear Summation (WLC) were used in a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) environment. The modeling was carried out with satellite images, which were: Temperature, Soil Moisture, Precipitation, Slopes, Normalized Differential Vegetation Index (NDVI), Digital Elevation Model (DEM), Vegetation Cover and Evapotranspiration. The results show that thanks to the effective integration of the factors with the EMC technique, regions with different levels of aridity could be identified; the northern and northwestern regions have a greater arid surface area with 41%, while the semi-arid regions, located in the west, represent 30% of the surface area, while the sub-humid regions were located in the southeast with 27% of the surface area.

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Published

2024-11-25

How to Cite

López Osorio, R. F., Pérez Aguilar, L. Y., Zambrano Medina, Y. G., & Ávila Aceves, E. (2024). Application of multicriteria assessment to evaluate climatic and environmental factors in the identification of arid regions in northwestern Mexico. Revista De Investigación En Tecnologías De La Información, 12(28 Especial), 54–70. https://doi.org/10.36825/RITI.12.28.006