Geographic Information System Based Suitable Temporary Shelter Location for Mount Merapi Eruption

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This paper aims to provide a model to determine suitable temporary shelter locations that meet several criteria, which include constraints (exclusionary criteria) and factors (evaluation criteria). Potential shelters will be selected from the candidates that meet the factor criteria using Geographic Information System (GIS), fuzzy logic, multi-criteria decision making (Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), and Weighted Linear Combination (WLC)). The combination of the methodology is very common and mature, lack of clear innovation. At the same time, the complexity of research background is average. As a result, it is not an excellent work.

Author Response

December 13, 2022

Dear Reviewer,

On behalf of myself and my co-authors, I would like to submit the revised version of our research article entitled “Geographic Information System Based Suitable Temporary Shelter Location for Mount Merapi Eruption” altogether with the response to your comments.

Please see the attachment.

Thank you!

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 2 Report

The manuscript aims  to provide a model to determine suitable temporary shelter locations that meet several criteria, which include constraints (exclusionary criteria) and factors (evaluation criteria) with the help of Geographic Information System (GIS) for Mount Merapi Eruption. This study is based on using remote sensing data and GIS. The proposed approach is not completely clear, some steps have to be better explained:

Abstract:
1- The abstract is generally well written but some modifications are suggested. Authors are requested to add the information how the criteria are selected?

2-      The future recommendations should also be provided?

 Introduction:

1-      Authors did not elaborate novelty of this work hence there is room to make this as a useful contribution.

2-      Page 3 line 92, Support this sentence with proper references such as https://doi.org/10.1007/s12518-021-00363-6

Page 3 line 96, Support this sentence with proper references such as  DOI: 

https://doi.org/10.18280/ijdne.150318;   https://doi.org/10.18280/ijdne.150511

3-      At the end of the introduction section, the novelty of this work should be provided.

Methodology

1-      Data collection and methods are not well captured hence suffering from many shortcomings.

2-      More details about questionnaire must be added.

3-      Page 5 line 189,  Support this sentence with proper references such as

doi:10.1088/1757-899X/881/1/012170

4-      Page 6 line 220 (only the distance of a shelter from the affected area) is considered as a constraints (exclusionary criteria ).

5-      Page 7 line 235 the authors must be defined what are the evaluation criteria.

Page 7 line 243  Support this sentence with proper references such as https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5580286;

6-      The Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) method should be explained in details. Why this method is selected and what is the significance of this method.

7-      About the use of the WLC. First, I ask the authors to specify that the operation to refer all criteria to the same scale must be referred as ‘normalisation’. The authors must also specify that they used a raster model.

8-      Are there any sensitivity analyses conducted for the selected criteria?

Results

1-      The results seem interesting, but more information need to be moved to methodology section and study area section to offer a scientific product to be used as new approach, especially the paragraph ( 4.1(Shelter criteria for the Merapi eruption )

2-      Page 7 line 262- 266, authors are requested to add more justification for these limited. 

3-      Page 9 line 293, authors are requested to clarify why they use only five criteria (Disaster Risk, Land Suitability, Accessibility, Infrastructure, and Feasibility).

4-      All criteria (line 293-342) must be supported with proper references.

5-      Page 17 lin3 349 to page 25 line 517 moved to methodlogy section

6-      Page 19 line 442 the concept of AHP must be moved in section of methodology and support with proper references.

Discussion

1-      Authors are requested to add more result like (how many sites lies with suitable area and discussed it )

Conclusion

1-      Authors are requested to add future recommendations for the study area

Author Response

December 13, 2022

Dear Reviewer,

On behalf of myself and my co-authors, I would like to submit the revised version of our research article entitled “Geographic Information System Based Suitable Temporary Shelter Location for Mount Merapi Eruption” altogether with the response to your comments.

Please see the attachment.

Thank you!

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 3 Report

In disaster loss models, most previous studies have focused on natural disaster shelter location-allocation problem, such as earthquake, flood, and tropical cyclone. Here, the following steps are included: 1) setting information about the location and capacity of the shelter; 2) the connectivity problem between community and shelter, community and community, and shelter and shelter, which is simply the shortest path between each node (including community and shelter); 3) which shelter the people in the community should go to, which is mainly an optimization problem here. However, little research has been done on volcanic shelter problems. This is an attempt to study the volcanic shelter problems, including the location of shelter and location-allocation. The topic is interesting, the structure was well organized and easy to be read. However, the authors spent a lot of effort on the location of the shelter, and the solution to the location-allocation is too simple. It is suggested that the author can take these into full considerations in the future work, and also recommend that authors read more classic articles in journals, such as the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR).

Here are many details:

1.        Literature Review: In this section, the authors listed many related work. Here, the authors lack a brief introduction to the development of natural disaster shelter location-allocation problem. Therefore, I recommend that the authors first read the related review article, “Site Selection Models in Natural Disaster Shelters: A Review”.

2.        Research Methodology: I think that in addition to the constraints such as distance mentioned by the authors, the capacity of the shelter should also be taken into account. Although the authors mention capacity in Table 1, it should be stated in this section for the sake of specification.

3.        Figure 2: Add a panel in Figure 2 with the location of the study area in Indonesia.

4.        Table 1: Add the additional material or references to clarify Table 1.

5.        Table 2 and Figure 4: The details in Figure 4 are sufficient and it is recommended to remove Table 2.

6.        Discussion: Simplify discussion sections.

I recommend major revision.

Author Response

December 13, 2022

Dear Reviewer,

On behalf of myself and my co-authors, I would like to submit the revised version of our research article entitled “Geographic Information System Based Suitable Temporary Shelter Location for Mount Merapi Eruption” altogether with the response to your comments.

Please see the attachment.

Thank you!

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors have addressed all my comments and suggestions therefore I think the manuscript based on the last modification is ready for publication.

Reviewer 3 Report

The revised manuscript has been significantly improved in response to reviewers’ comments. The revised manuscript is now suitable for publication.