Site Selection
Rank every candidate location, not just the ones someone thought of.
site-selection
The problem
Choosing where to build, place, or expand usually reduces to a handful of shortlisted options and an argument. The spatial data needed to compare them properly exists, but weighing accessibility, constraints, demand, and cost across a whole region is more work than a deadline allows.
How it works
Site Selection scores a whole study area against weighted criteria — constraints that exclude, factors that favour — and ranks candidates. Weights are yours to set, and every score decomposes back into the factors that produced it, so a ranking can be argued with rather than merely accepted.
Inputs
- Study area boundary
- Constraint layers: exclusions, protections, hazards
- Factor layers: access, population, infrastructure, terrain, cost
- Criteria weights
Outputs
- Ranked candidate sites with scores
- Suitability surface across the study area
- Score decomposition per candidate
- Comparison table and exportable GIS layers
Applications
- Retail and service network expansion
- Facility, plant, and depot siting
- Renewable energy site screening
- Public service and infrastructure placement
In your GIS
The suitability surface and ranked candidates export as raster and vector layers you can re-weight and re-run as conditions change.