An Information System for Provincial Mineral Resources Planning and Management Based on ArcGIS

Mineral resources are important parts of national land resources. Itpsilas very important to establish mineral resources planning and management system for utilization of mineral resources efficiently and reasonably. The information system for mineral resources planning and management system (MRMIS) in Liaoning province was developed based on ArcGIS and Oracle. The developed system has three levels, which are provincial, municipal, and county level respectively, including a mineral resources planning and management system running on Windows forms (desktop application), and a web publishing system based on browser/server architecture (web application). The desktop application was developed based on ArcObjects component library, ArcSDE, Oracle using Visual Basic. The web application was developed based on ArcSDE, ArcIMS using ASP.Net and JavaScript. The main framework, data management, data transfer mechanism and functional modules were introduced.