Accomplishment and subjectivity of GIS based DRASTIC groundwater vulnerability assessment method: a review

• Main Authors: Hamza, Salem M., Ahsan, Amimul, Imteaz, Monzur Alam, Rahman, Ataur, Mohamed, Thamer Ahmed, Ghazali, Abdul Halim
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2015
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43636/1/Accomplishment%20and%20subjectivity%20of%20GIS-based%20DRASTIC%20groundwater%20vulnerability%20assessment%20method%20a%20review.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43636/; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12665-014-3601-2
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Groundwater vulnerability assessment is an important task in water resources and land management. The most sophisticated among the vulnerability assessment techniques is the GIS-based DRASTIC model. However, despite its popularity, it is marred with excessive subjectivity glitches; little research h...