INTEGRATING MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS AND GIS FOR ASSESSING RAINGAGE WORTH WITHIN AN ESTABLISHED NETWORK1

ABSTRACT: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology is used to develop automated methods for assessing raingage networks. An ArcView GIS module has been developed by incorporating simple statistical methods with the software's spatial analysis capabilities, visualization, and AVENUE scripts (the ArcView programming language). The main purpose of the module is to provide a decision support for reducing the number of gages in an existing …