Title :
A Spatial Decision Support System for Citrus Management A Case Study of the Three Gorges Area of China
Author :
Wu, Wei ; Liu, Hong-Bin ; Dai, Heng-Lin ; Li, Wei ; Sun, Peng-Shou
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Southwest Univ., Chongqing, China
Abstract :
Geographic information system technology has been applied to manage and analyze the citrus production information in the Three Gorges area of China. Massive information related to citrus production management including spatial and non-spatial data are collected from different sources. Taking account of the demands of different end users, the data sets are organized at three scales, i.e. municipality, county and orchard levels. Three geodatabases are created to store and integrate digital data sets in heterogeneous formats. Finally, a user-friendly interface spatial decision support system is developed based on the object-oriented Visual Basic 6.0 and ArcGIS Engine. The architecture of data organization and management developed in this project can be readily transplanted to other locations.
Keywords :
Visual BASIC; decision support systems; geographic information systems; geophysics computing; human computer interaction; object-oriented languages; user interfaces; vegetation; ArcGIS Engine; China; Three Gorges area; citrus production management; data management; data organization; digital data sets integration; geodatabases; geographic information system technology; heterogeneous formats; nonspatial data; object-oriented Visual Basic 6.0; spatial data; user-friendly interface spatial decision support system; Agriculture; Conference management; Decision support systems; Educational institutions; Environmental management; Geographic Information Systems; Production management; Resource management; Soil; Technology management; ArcGIS Engine; Geodatabase; Geographic information system; scale; sustainable development;
Conference_Titel :
Environmental Science and Information Application Technology, 2009. ESIAT 2009. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3682-8
DOI :
10.1109/ESIAT.2009.250
