In Suitability Analysis we can compare a variety of variable in order to determine the most suitable geospatial location. In this situation, we compared elevation, land cover, soil type, distance from roads and distance from rivers. In the Equal Weight scenario we used the weighted overlay tool to compare the 5 pre-processed variables and assigned 20% weight to all. While this may make sense comparing just the raster, this is not effective in real scenarios. For the alternative, we used real world data and project specifics to weight the variables based on importance to the client. In this situation we assigned land cover and soils a value of 20% each, slope 40%, and distance to streams and roads at 10% each.
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