The Evaluation of Ecological Potential of the West Azerbaijan Province to Determine Susceptible Urban Development Using Fuzzy Logic

It is impractical to exactly uncover the degree of potential of the areas for the land use purposes. However، the application of fuzzy logic، as a mathematical modeling logic of imprecise and vague processes، can pave the way so as to do processing modeling and to determine the ecological potential. In the present research the ecological urban development model of West Azerbaijan was considered as the basis and performed using fuzzy logic. The fuzzification of ecological resources maps and indeed fuzzy inference system in geographic information systems (GIS) is a way of determining the fuzzy membership degree and the overlapping of different layers for urban development. The results of the ecological evaluation of urban development and analysis of fuzzy logic strengths and weaknesses as compared to implementation of Makhdoom model illustrated that the fuzzy inference engine in the geographic information systems can yield much real output particularly in the sides of borders which form the ecological resources maps. Finally، this study invites further economic، social، and modeling studies in the issues of assigning lands for different usages.