Objectives:
Find potential landfill sites for Gallatin County, MT by applying land cover, elevation, water, soil drainage, and other landfill data to the suitability analysis.
Prepare the data.
Reclassify the data.
Run the simple model and the weighted model.
Recreate the model using modelbuilder.
Figure 1. Modelbuilder output showing the input data, reclassification, and calculation of suitable areas for a new landfill in Gallatin County, Montana.
Figure 2. One component of the suitability analysis, the stream buffer, weighted as a percentage of the factors.