FAQ

A web application for GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis. It guides the user through nine steps, from the study area and the criteria to weighting, results, sensitivity analysis and export.

The application is open to researchers, practitioners and students. An account is required to create and save projects.

Use of the application is free of charge. Storage per account is limited; additional storage can be requested from the administrators.

No. All steps run in the browser and the calculations are carried out on the server. GIS software is only needed to prepare input data and to process exported results.

Raster data as GeoTIFF or ASCII grid, vector data as zipped shapefile, GeoPackage or GeoJSON, and tables as CSV.

Each uploaded file can be up to 500 MB. The total storage available per account is limited.

All input layers are aligned to the reference grid of the project, which is defined in step 1 together with its coordinate reference system. Layers in other coordinate systems are reprojected to the reference grid.

Projects are private by default. Input data are visible to other users only when a project is shared, and the download of input data is locked by default.

Yes. Projects can be shared with other users as editors or viewers, and results can be published through a read-only public link.

Yes. A project can serve as a template for a course, and each student works on a separate copy.

A classified map that ranks the locations within the study area from very low to very high. The result is relative and does not represent absolute values.

Each analysis can be exported as a report in PDF or Word format that records the data, weights, scoring functions and assumptions, together with the result maps in GIS formats.

mcda.Studio does not have a DOI yet. Until then, the citation given under “Cite mcda.Studio” at the bottom of each page can be used.