Abstract
The main topic of the article is the use of multicriteria analysis in assessing the impact of the geographical environment on rescue and military activities. The evaluation is based on digital geographical data, and the influences of individual geographical factors are determined by spatial analyses. The essence of the article lies in the design of a methodical procedure for determining the weights of individual criteria and in the construction of a suitable resulting user function (utility value function) in a geographic information system environment with regard to the solved problem and in the verification of the proposed procedure. Using sensitivity analysis, the dominance of individual factors is determined, and the influence of the changes in the weights of the criteria on the overall results of the analysis is assessed. Detailed studies of the differences in the results of solving the same analytical problem with changed weights of individual criteria are performed, and these studies are documented on a model example. Based on verification tests performed both in office conditions and directly at selected locations, “optimized procedures” are recommended for assessing the potential of the geographical environment for the operation of rescue or military units in field conditions. Finally, the possibilities of further development of the model solution and its implementation into control systems are presented.
Highlights
A frequent task in dealing with operations in the landscape is to assess the impact of the geographical environment on the activities of the intervening forces
The method of determining the weights of individual criteria can affect the entire analysis of the location
The task solved could not, cover all the problems that occur in solving analytical activities within the geographical support of command and control systems [35]
Summary
A frequent task in dealing with operations in the landscape is to assess the impact of the geographical environment on the activities of the intervening forces. Its main objective was to point to the issue of the use of digital geographic data (DGD) in solving analytical tasks with the application of multicriteria analysis, especially when intervention in a large, previously unknown and unexplored area is necessary. Such an intervention may be, for example, the decontamination of the civilian population after the use of weapons of mass destruction or as a result of industrial hazardous substance release following an industrial infrastructure facility accident [2,3,4,5,6]. The results of the solution were verified mainly using orthogonalized aerial photographs, but their verification in the field did not take place
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