After classification, all raster data of each factor had values of 3, 2 and 1 representing "suitable", "moderately suitable" and "not suitable areas", respectively.
We performed separate GIS analyses to map occupied, suitable, potentially suitable, and unsuitable habitat types within the PPA and to determine how conservation actions might impact the oil and gas activities (See definitions in Methods, below; Figure 7).
In general, although individual factor evaluations provided varying amounts of suitability, results of weighted overlay analysis for biophysical suitability evaluation using spatial modeling methods identified 15.07% (166,082 km2), 76.57% (844,040 km2) and 8.36% (92114 km2) of the land as highly suitable, moderately suitable and not suitable for jatropha production, respectively.
The classes used in this study were "suitable", "moderately suitable" and "not suitable".
Therefore, the soil data of the study area was classified into suitable, moderately suitable and not suitable categories.
The weighted overlay method was adopted in GIS to delineate the potential area into four major categories as highly suitable, suitable, moderately suitable, and unsuitable.
So that based on these evidences the elevation classes between 1646 and 1900 m; 1900.1 m and 2000 m and more than 2000 m above mean sea level were identified as more suitable, moderately suitable and not suitable respectively.
According to Li et al. (2016), water for irrigation purposes are classified as suitable, not suitable and marginally suitable for irrigation when RSC value are < 1.25, > 2.5 and 1.25 2.5 meq/L, respectively.
On the basis of PI, water for irrigation purposes can be classified as suitable, marginally suitable and unsuitable for irrigation when the PI values are 100% maximum permeability (class I), 75% maximum permeability (class II) and 25% maximum permeability (class III), respectively.
At the request of the working group, we performed a separate analysis of occupied, suitable, potentially suitable, and unsuitable LPCH habitat within the PPA.
