Evaluating the Suitability for Exploitation of Underground Space Resources in Urban Areas

Underground space is one of important natural resources. The evaluation of the suitability of its exploitation and utilization is one of significant and basic conditions of constituting planning of city underground space. This paper adopts ana analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and expert questionnaire survey method Furthermore, it selects some significant indexes of several themes containing status quo of underground space for analyzing the suitability of underground space, and sets up evaluation model of zoning of the suitability of underground space exploitation and utilization (USEU), for the purpose of providing theoretic warranties for planning of underground space. Lasts, this paper sets one city's new zone as an example, having used ArcGIS to get the final evaluating figure of the suitability.