A spatial classification model for multicriteria analysis

Abstract

This paper stresses that standard multicriteria aggregation procedures either do not assume any structure in data or this structure is in fact assumed linear. Nevertheless, many decision making problems are based upon a family of data with a well defined spatial structure, which is simply not taken into account. Hence, such aggregation procedures may be misleading. Therefore, we propose an alternative model where the aggregation of criteria assumes a certain structure, according to remote sensing data.