ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Utilizing a Fuzzy Inference System (FIS)
and Modified Analytical Hierarchical Analysis
for Forest Road Network Planning
in Afforested Lands
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Çankırı Karatekin University, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Engineering, Çankırı, Turkey
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Bartın University, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Engineering, Agdaci Campus, Bartın, Turkey
Submission date: 2018-03-04
Final revision date: 2018-03-28
Acceptance date: 2018-03-28
Online publication date: 2018-12-12
Publication date: 2019-02-18
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Halil Barış Özel
University of Bartın, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Silviculture and Applied Ecology, Agdaci Campus, 74100-Bartın/TURKEY, 74100 Bartın, Turkey
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2019;28(3):1579-1589
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ABSTRACT
Afforestation activity needs serious feasibility in as much as it is a work of establishing a new
facility. Moreover, the process of selecting the land to be afforested; determining site conditions;
selecting suitable tree species, provenance, and clones; the planting or sowing techniques; and planning
of the environmental transport network are all costly. Determining suitable areas for environmental
road network installation, which has an important place in afforestation areas, is discussed in this
study. In this context, characteristics of an afforestated area have been evaluated by virtue of the fuzzy
inference system (FIS) and modified analytical hierarchical analysis (M-AHP) methods on a sample
area established as an afforestation area. The main objective of this study is planning in a way that is
sensitive to nature and strives for ecological balance on environmental forest road networks for forested
and afforested areas by utilizing multiple decision support methods with a view to realizing maintenance
on afforestation areas in short- and long-term processes. A total of eight factors were determined in
the study. The best twelve models, obtained as a result of analyses carried out with these factors, are
presented. The success of the models was evaluated with receiver operating characteristic (ROC)
analysis and the best model was obtained by M-AHP, which was Model 4M-AHP with 71.2% area under
curve (AUC) value. We observed that the model obtained through the M-AHP method is more successful
in on-site road network planning during the phase of creating the afforestation projects.