This article investigates economic, social, and physical factors affecting development of Sanandej City in Kurdestan, Iran. Data sources include, map data such as slope, geology, soil, topography, hydrology, aspect, Digital Elevation Model, Triangular Irregular Network, fault lines , land suitability, rural settlements, physical development. The attribute data such as land use, population, densities, social and economic criteria are also used in this study. Landsat satellite images (TM 1990 -1998) are part of the database as well. In this study methods such as Boolean
logic, Index overlay, and Image enhancement, and geometric correction are used to analysis the data. After giving weight to the related data by second stage of Analytic Hierarchical Process, Boolean logic and Index overlay are applied to show the suitable development location. Here, it i shown that selected location for best urban development is a 12 square kilometer zone located to the northwest part of sanandej.
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