Site Suitability of Solid Waste Disposal in English Bazar Municipality Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques, Malda, India

Abstract

An effort has been made in this study to identify suitable sites for the disposal of solid waste of English Bazar Municipality. For proper identification and selection of appropriate sites for solid waste disposal, careful and systematic procedures need to be adopted and followed. In order to find the best location to dispose of solid waste in the English Bazar Municipality utilizing GIS-based techniques, such as AHP, was the key objective of this study. When selecting a suitable solid waste disposal site within the study area, the current research considered several elements, including road networks, water bodies, soil, elevation, land use/cover, railway networks, and population density. AHP was used to determine the factor's relative weights, and GIS was used to construct factor maps. The final weighted factor map produced an overall solid waste disposal suitability map. The solid waste disposal site suitability map was presented in three indexes: highly suitable, moderately suitable, and not suitable. The result shows that around 2.9 percent of the area is highly suitable for solid waste disposal sites, 48.64 percent is moderately suitable, and 48.46 percent of the study area is unsuitable for solid waste disposal sites.