Code & User’s Manual

Coastal Scenic Evaluation System (CSES) provides a mathematical model based on fuzzy logic to integrate the parameters’ weights into an expert-rating system of scenic sites. The quantitative evaluation of the coastal scenery by using fuzzy logic mathematics is proved to be appropriate to reduce subjectivity on decision-making the phase of the assessment. The fuzzy logic analysis gives an overall result for scenic evaluation over attributes enabling calculation of a coastal scenic evaluation index (D) which categorizes all sites into five classes via statistically best-described attribute values regarding weighted areas.

CSES is discussed in detail in Chapter 4 (Ergin, 2018) of the book titled ‘Coastal Scenery: Evaluation and Management’ to be published by Springer. The link to the book will be provided here as soon as it will be published.

CSES is re-implemented in MATLAB environment in Ergin et al. (2018). The developed code  “CSESV1-2018” is presented as an open-source computational tool for the coastal scenic evaluation system with  User’s Manual and with an example case study.

The users of the code should refer and cite Ergin (2018) (the book chapter) for the theoretical background, Ergin et al. (2018) for open-source computational tool.

The code (Version: V1-2018) could be downloaded from here.

The user’s manual (Version: 1.0) can be reached from here.

For any questions

  • related to theoretical background, please send an e-mail to Aysen Ergin: ergin {at} metu {dot} edu {dot} tr
  • related to the usage and bugs of the code as well as your comments and suggestions, please send an e-mail to Hasan Gokhan Guler: goguler {at} metu {dot} edu {dot} tr

References:

Ergin A. (2018) Coastal Scenery Assessment by Means of a Fuzzy Logic Approach. In: Rangel-Buitrago, N (ed.) Coastal Scenery: Evaluation and Management, Springer, Amsterdam, p xx – xx. (in press)

Ergin A., Karaesmen E., Guler, H.G. (2018) Development of An OpenSource Computational Tool For Coastal Scenic Assessment Based on Fuzzy Logic. Turkish Chamber of Civil Engineers,
9th Coastal Engineering Symposium. November 1-3, 2018, Adana, Turkey.
(in Turkish) (submitted as abstract).


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