Implications of a Spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Urban Development in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Table 7

For different levels of change of one criterion (cf. Table 6), the number of cells in each suitability class, and the number and percentage of cells that have shifted class compared with the base map.

Change input	Sensitivity map			⁢Difference between sensitivity map and base map
	1	2	3	⁢1		⁢2		⁢3
	(0–84)	(>84–168)	(>168–255)	⁢(0–84)		⁢ (>84–168)		⁢ (>168–255)
	(# cells)	(# cells)	(# cells)	(# cells)	(%)	(# cells)	(%)	(# cells)	(%)
Base	644239	1493369	214143	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slope −18%	557807	1477549	316395	−86432	−13.4	−15820	−1.1	102252	47.7
Slope −12%	584823	1482800	284128	−59416	−9.2	−10569	−0.7	69985	32.7
Slope −6%	614137	1491049	246565	−30102	−4.7	−2320	−0.2	32422	15.1
Slope +6%	676054	1489162	186535	31815	4.9	−4207	−0.3	−27608	−12.9
Slope +12%	711534	1476143	164074	67295	10.4	−17226	−1.2	−50069	−23.4
Slope +18%	725447	1471445	154859	81208	12.6	−21924	−1.5	−59284	−27.7
Urban −18%	748595	1429919	173237	104356	16.2	−63450	−4.2	−40906	−19.1
Urban −12%	711589	1454280	185882	67350	10.5	−39089	−2.6	−28261	−13.2
Urban −6%	677243	1475205	199303	33004	5.1	−18164	−1.2	−14840	−6.9
Urban +6%	612625	1509268	229858	−31614	−4.9	15899	1.1	15715	7.3
Urban +12%	582593	1522757	246401	−61646	−9.6	29388	2.0	32258	15.1
Urban +18%	554993	1531849	264909	−89246	−13.9	38480	2.6	50766	23.7
Soil −18%	626473	1530169	195109	−17766	−2.8	36800	2.5	−19034	−8.9
Soil −12%	631098	1519343	201310	−13141	−2.0	25974	1.7	−12833	−6.0
Soil −6%	637251	1507001	207499	−6988	−1.1	13632	0.9	−6644	−3.1
Soil +6%	651642	1479202	220907	7403	1.1	−14167	−0.9	6764	3.2
Soil +12%	659334	1463997	228420	15095	2.3	−29372	−2.0	14277	6.7
Soil +18%	666484	1448725	236542	22245	3.5	−44644	−3.0	22399	10.5
Road −18%	614767	1540564	196420	−29472	−4.6	47195	3.2	−17723	−8.3
Road −12%	624185	1525776	201790	−20054	−3.1	32407	2.2	−12353	−5.8
Road −6%	634313	1509594	207844	−9926	−1.5	16225	1.1	−6299	−2.9
Road +6%	654300	1476911	220540	10061	1.6	−16458	−1.1	6397	3.0
Road +12%	664963	1459479	227309	20724	3.2	−33890	−2.3	13166	6.1
Road +18%	675633	1441832	234286	31394	4.9	−51537	−3.5	20143	9.4
River −18%	675076	1474173	202502	30837	4.8	−19196	−1.3	−11641	−5.4
River −12%	665153	1480465	206133	20914	3.2	−12904	−0.9	−8010	−3.7
River −6%	654294	1487117	210340	10055	1.6	−6252	−0.4	−3803	−1.8
River +6%	634151	1499720	217880	−10088	−1.6	6351	0.4	3737	1.7
River +12%	623218	1506307	222226	−21021	−3.3	12938	0.9	8083	3.8
River +18%	613213	1512423	226115	−31026	−4.8	19054	1.3	11972	5.6
Vegetation −18%	639094	1479907	232750	−5145	−0.8	−13462	−0.9	18607	8.7
Vegetation −12%	634103	1487175	230473	−10136	−1.6	−6194	−0.4	16330	7.6
Vegetation −6%	649638	1486011	216102	5399	0.8	−7358	−0.5	1959	0.9
Vegetation +6%	638737	1500874	212140	−5502	−0.9	7505	0.5	−2003	−0.9
Vegetation +12%	633322	1508804	209625	−10917	−1.7	15435	1.0	−4518	−2.1
Vegetation +18%	628014	1516474	207263	−16225	−2.5	23105	1.5	−6880	−3.2
Aspect −18%	634247	1491502	226002	−9992	−1.6	−1867	−0.1	11859	5.5
Aspect −12%	638020	1492129	221602	−6219	−1.0	−1240	−0.1	7459	3.5
Aspect −6%	640834	1492891	218026	−3405	−0.5	−478	0.0	3883	1.8
Aspect +6%	647603	1493941	210207	3364	0.5	572	0.0	−3936	−1.8
Aspect +12%	650659	1494456	206636	6420	1.0	1087	0.1	−7507	−3.5
Aspect +18%	654526	1494613	202612	10287	1.6	1244	0.1	−11531	−5.4