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A Semantic Environmental GIS for Solid Waste Management

Authors:
Miguel Felix Mata Rivera
Roberto Eswart Zagal Flores
Consuelo Varinia Garcia Mendoza
Diana Gabriela Castro Frontana

Keywords: Solid Waste Management; Environmental GIS; Spatial Semantics

Abstract:
Abstract— Nowadays, solid waste handling is a critic problem. Governments and specialists of different disciplines wrestle with environmental problems that poor waste handling generate. For example, in México city the sanitary landfills have been overstepped in their capacity. Then, they are inadequate for the collection and processing of municipal solid waste. We propose as a solution a multi-criteria approach based on semantics, in order to get the adequate place to built any waste handling facility. In this research, a methodology implemented in an environmental GIS system (EGIS) is shown. EGIS identifies and estimates several parameters required for planning or to dimension a waste handling facility (sanitary landfills). The approach proposed involves a multi-criteria solution that includes: environment considerations, administrative parameters, spatial analysis, constraints and Mexican regulations. All of them are combined and processed based on Mexican normative rules. In order to get a management of municipal solid waste (MSW) and a geo-environmental recommendation to locate sanitary landfills in places that comply with official regulations. The results are potential locations for a sanitary landfill site. In addition, information of possible financing sources is given to carry out waste handling projects accordingly. Methodology can be applied to other countries with similar problems regarding to sanitary landfills. Results obtained are better when semantics and multicriteria are combined that when they are used isolated.

Pages: 97 to 102

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: September 23, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4510

ISBN: 978-1-61208-240-0

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from September 23, 2012 to September 28, 2012