Landfill Sitting by Two Methods in Al-Qasim , Babylon , Iraq and Comparing Them Using Change Detection Method

The selecting of a site for landfill is considered as a difficult process because many criteria should be involved. The main aim of establishing a landfill is to protect the human and environment. Al-Qasim district is considered as the study area in this work. It is one of the main districts in Babylon Governorate, Iraq. There is no systematic site as landfill that fulfil the environmental and scientific criteria in this area. Therefore, the most important fifteen criteria that suited the environmental requirements were selected in the current study. These criteria are: groundwater depth, urban centers, rivers, villages, soil types, elevation, roads agricultural land use, slope, land use, archaeological sites, power lines, gas pipelines, oil pipelines and railways. Two methods of multi criteria decision making AHP (analytical hierarchy process) and SRS (straight rank sum) were applied to obtain the weights of criteria in dissimilar styles. The raster maps of the selected criteria were prepared and analyzed within the GIS software. Then, the change detection method was implemented to compare the two output raster maps resulted from AHP and SRS methods. Two appropriate candidate sites for landfill were selected to accommodate the cumulative solid waste until the year 2030 in Qasim district. The areas of these sites were 2.766 km and 2.055 km respectively.

for landfill.It reduces time and cost in the process of landfill siting, as well as having a high capability to manage large volumes of data from variety of sources.
Multi criteria decision methods (MCDA) often help decision-makers to handle the large amount of complex information [2] [10] [11].Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and SRS (straight rank sum) are considered as examples of such methods.AHP was developed originally by Saaty [12] in 1980 to derive the weights of criteria using pair wise comparison matrix.SRS is considered one of the multi criteria making methods, where this method was adopted on giving the weights for criteria directly [13].
In this study, the Change Detection method was used to compare two raster maps that were resulted from using the AHP and SRS methods, where this method was used to determine the pixels' percentage of matching and non-matching for two maps.
The main aim of this study is determined suitable candidate sites for landfill in Al-Qasim Qadhaa, Babylon Governorate, Iraq through using two methods of multi-criteria decision making (AHP and SRS) and GIS software.In addition, the resultant maps of two methods were compared using the Change Detection method to determine the proportion of areas for matching and non-matching.

Sources of Required Maps
For preparing the required maps for this study, many sources were used for this purpose.One of these sources was as digital maps (shape files).These maps are: topography, slope, river, road, urban centers, villages, archaeological sites, gas pipelines, oil pipelines, power lines and railways, where these maps were adopted according to the internal reports of the Iraqi Ministry of Education [16].The second source for preparing the required maps was the available data which was entered in GIS, where the readings of 170 wells for the depths of groundwater were entered into GIS to generate an interpolation between them using the spatial extension tool called Kriging in order to produce the digital map of groundwater depth in Al-Qasim Qadhaa [17].The third sources which were used to produce the required maps in this study were the published maps.These maps were prepared within GIS using spatial analysis tools as a separate shape file using the relevant information in each map, and then they were converted to the digital maps.The digital map of "agricultural land" was determined using the published map of land capability of Iraq (scale 1:1,000,000) [18], and it was checked by analyzing satellite images of the Babylon Governorate from 2011 [19].
The digital map of "soil types" was obtained using the map of exploratory soil of Iraq was used (scale 1:1,000,000) [20].The map of industrial areas (scale 1: 400,000) [14] shows industrial locations within this Qadhaa, while the map arc-Figure 1.The study area across Al-Qasim Qadhaa, Babylon Governorate, Iraq.Engineering haeological sites of Iraq scale (1:1,500,000) [21] displays the important archaeological and religious sites in this Qadhaa.

Preparing Rating Values for Sub-Criteria
In this study, based on literature review and opinion of experts in this field, different requirements and regulations as well as available data about the study area, each criterion was classified into categories (sub-criteria), and each category was given a suitability rating value.In order to prepare each criterion and sub-criteria, there were a number of steps that were performed in GIS environment using special analysis tools (e.g., buffer, clip, extract, overlay, and map algebra, etc.) as shown in (Figure 2 & Figure 3) and (Table 1).

Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)
The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was developed by Thomas Saaty in 1980 to solve a complicated decision problem into simpler decision problems.AHP is used a matrix of pair wise comparison to derive the relative weights for criteria, rather than scoring weights directly, which used in other methods of Multi Criteria decision making.This method has high capability to assess the consistency of judgments, and mathematical foundation [22].
In the Analytic Hierarchy Process, the numerical scales of 9-points are used, where each point equates to an expression of the relative importance between each two criteria [12].After selecting the number of all criteria (n) for comparison purpose, AHP method was used the following steps to derive the weight for each criterion [23].
The typical matrix of the pair wise comparison (A) for the criteria (n × m) was formed as follows: Engineering Table 1.The summary of the input layers used in the analysis.
The values of a ij is the element of row ( 1, 2, , ), which are used to indicate the performance values in a matrix in terms of the i-th and j-th.The values of comparison criteria above the diagonal of the matrix were used to fill the upper triangular of the matrix.Then, the reciprocal values of the upper diagonal are used to fill the lower triangular of the matrix.This is performed by using the following formula: (a ji = 1/a ij ).
In order to normalize the matrix of pair wise comparison (A v ), each value in column (j) was divided by the summation values in column (j) of the matrix, where the sum of each column should be equal to 1.The new normalized matrix was created as follows.
Then, the eigenvector was calculated as an average values in each row (F i ) of the matrix (A v ) to produce the matrix (A f ); where (F i ) is the value of relative importance (weight) of the ith criterion.
In order to calculate the consistency vector of the weight values W i , this done by multiplying the matrix (A v ) by the matrix (A f ) which is considered the best estimation for the eigenvector as follow.
The eigenvalue of the pairwise comparison matrix (λ max ) was obtained from the following formula: The consistency index (CI) is obtained by the following formula: where n is the size of the matrix.In this study, n = 15 and λ max = 15.58;therefore CI = 0.04.The consistency ratio (CR = [(CI/RI)]) was determined depending on [12], through dividing the consistency index value (CI) by the Random index value (RI = 15.9) because the number of criteria was 15 [24] [25].If the value of Consistency Ratio is smaller than 0.1, the ratio point to a reasonable consistency level in the pairwise comparison.In this study, the CR was equal to 0.026 lower than the critical limit of 0.1.Figure 4 shows the matrix of pairwise comparison and the weights of criteria.

Straight Rank Sum Method (SRS)
The straight rank sum method (SRS) is a ranking method, and considered a simple method that uses to determine the weights of criteria through arranging the criteria according to relative importance from the most to the least significance depending on the literature review and preference of decision makers using the following formula (n − r i + 1).Then the weights of criteria are normalized through dividing each weight of criterion by their sum ( ) according to Equation (2) [13] (Table 2): ( ) ( ) where, W i is the relative importance of normalized weight for ith criterion; n is the number of criteria in this study under consideration ( 1, 2, , g n =  ); r i is the position of rank for the factor.

Final Output Maps
After determining the weights for each criterion using the AHP and SRS methods, suitable ratings for the sub-criteria of each criterion were assigned based on the previous studies in this field and experts opinion.The weighted liner combination (WLC) method was applied on all criteria using special analysis tool "Map Algebra" to obtain the final output map of the suitability index for a landfill siting in Al-Qasim Qadhaa.The WLC method was applied depending on the following Equation ( 3): where, Y i is the suitability index for area i, W j is the relative importance weighting of the criterion, K ij is the grading value of area i under criterion j, and n is the total number of criteria [26] [7].
The summary of criteria weights which were computed using the methods of AHP and SRS can be seen in Table 3.
Each final map was divided into four categories are: unsuitable areas, moderately suitable areas, suitable areas and most suitable areas (Figure 5(a) and Figure 5(b)).Table 4 shows the area for each category and its proportion of the total study area that resulted from the two methods.

Comparison of the Two Final Raster Maps Using the Change Detection Method Some Common Mistakes
For comparing the resultant maps which were produced from using the two methods (AHP and SRS) in Al-Qasim Qadhaa, these raster maps were classified into four categories separately.The fourth categories are: 1) unsuitable areas, 2) Table 3.The summary of criteria weights that resulted from using AHP and SRS methods.
No  moderately suitable areas, 3) suitable areas and 4) most suitable areas.The Change Detection method was introduced by the U.S. National Land Cover Database (NLCD) [27], and it was used to compare the pixels of two maps (images) in the same area.The Change Detection method is usually used in many remote-sensing applications (http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1720&context=usgs staffpub).
In this study, this method was used to compare the final raster maps for each category, which were entered in GIS using the spatial analysis tool "Map Algebra" by applying the formula "(AHP raster map) Diff (SRS raster map)".Consequently, the comparison process was used to determine and check the suitability of the selected sites for landfill on both resulted maps from the two methods.
The resultant compression map was classified into matching areas and nonmatching areas, as shown in Table 5.The proportion of matching pixels in comparison map was 75.35% (in blue), whilst the proportion of the non-matching pixels for all categories was 24.65% (Red) (Figure 6).

Obtaining of Candidate Sites
The solid waste quantity expected in 2030 in Al-Qasim Qadhaa is 76,374 tonnes.The cumulative quantity of solid waste expected from 2020 to 2030 is 695,219 tonnes based on an expected population in 2030 in this Qadhaa of 304,621 inhabitants, according to calculations made by [28].The density of waste in waste DOI: 10.4236/eng.2017.98044734 Engineering  Two candidate sites were selected for landfill among the many sites located within the category of the "most suitable" index.These sites were each assigned a number (1 and 2).The area of Site No. 1 is 2.766 km 2 , while the area of Site No.
2 is 2.055 km 2 .These candidate sites are suitable for landfill in Al-Qasim Qadhaa.
Site No.1 is situated at latitude 32˚11'43"N, and longitude 44˚32'26"E, while the site.No. 2 is situated at latitude 32˚14'38"N, and longitude 44˚37'10"E.These sites were checked on the satellite images (2011) of the Babylon Governorate to make sure that these sites were suitable for landfill (Figure 7).Engineering

Conclusions
This study aimed to select suitable sites for landfill in Al-Qasim Qadhaa using the best methodology and also by taking into account the scientific and environmental criteria which are followed in advanced countries.In order to determine the most suitable site for solid waste landfill in Al-Qasim Qadhaa, 15 layers were incorporated in the process of analysis using GIS software, where the GIS is considered a powerful tool for assisting in the selection of a site for landfill due to its ability to deal with a large volume of data from different sources.These layers were: groundwater depth, urban centers, rivers, villages, soil types, elevation, roads agricultural land use, slope, land use, archaeological sites, power lines, gas pipelines, oil pipelines and railways.Two methods (AHP and SRS) were applied to derive the weights of criteria using different styles.The AHP is a pair-wise comparisons, while the SRS is considered a ranking method, where these methods represented the types of multi-criteria decision making methods.Then, WLC method was used to produce a suitability index for the final output map for the study area.This map was divided into four categories (unsuitable areas, moderately suitable areas, suitable areas and most suitable areas).
The method of Change Detection was used to compare the whole pixels for the four categories of the two maps that resulted from the two methods (AHP

Figure 4 .
Figure 4. Pairwise comparisons matrix and the weights of criteria for selecting suitable landfill site using AHP method.

Figure 5 .
Figure 5. Map of suitability index for landfill sites using (a) AHP model (b) SRS model.

Figure 6 .
Figure 6.The comparison map between AHP and SRS methods using Change Detection method.
et al.Iraq.It is situated in the southern part of the Babylon Governorate.Al-Qasim Qadhaa includes two cities are Al-Qasim and Al-Talyaah.This Qadhaa occupies an area of 637 km 2 DOI: 10.4236/eng.2017.98044725 Engineering of Babylon Governorate,

Table 2 .
The criterion weightings defined for the Straight Rank Sum (SRS) method and Normalized weight.

Table 4 .
The area of each category and its proportion for the final maps using the two methods.

Table 5 .
The results of comparison two maps resulted from (AHP) and (SRS) methods.