Geographical information system in support of agriculture development

Τίτλος

Geographical information system in support of agriculture development

Θέμα

Geographic information systems

Agriculture--Data processing

Δημιουργός

Kyriacou, Kypros

Pierides, Pantelis

Πηγή

Higher Technical Institute

Το πλήρες κείμενο είναι διαθέσιμο από το Υπουργείο Ενέργειας, Εμπορίου Βιομηχανίας και Τουρισμού.

Εκδότης

Library of Cyprus University of Technology

Ημερομηνία

1996

Δικαιώματα

Απαγορεύεται η δημοσίευση ή αναπαραγωγή, ηλεκτρονική ή άλλη χωρίς τη γραπτή συγκατάθεση του δημιουργού και κάτοχου των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων.

Μορφή

pdf

Γλώσσα

eng

Τύπος

text

Αναγνωριστικό

CSD0154

Σύνοψη

As it has been already noted in the introduction one of the objective of this project is to uncover the infonnation needs of agriculture. The major organization that establishes the government's policies in agriculture is the
Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment. As a logical consequence the project team focused towards that direction. A number of people have been interviewed and various books and leaflets regarding the Ministry have been studied. The spherical view provided from the previous actions and certain other factors analysed afterwards, was detennining that
the project should be narrowed to a single department of the Ministry.
Infonnation gathering was continued for all the sections of the Department of Agriculture. Again the project team had to made a decision on what infonnation to be handled by the GIS to be developed.
The preselection of the data concluded the needs of the first objective of the project, to uncover the infonnation needs of agriculture. From that point and on the project team focused on analysing the infonnation gathered, designing the new system and implementing it.
The SDLC methodology was followed in the development of this project.
MapInfo and MapBasic package Version 4.0 as well as F oxPro version 2.6 were used for the development of the system.
The system developed is compromised from two parts. The first part, developed with FoxPro development kit is responsible for entering the
infonnation. The second part, developed with MapInfo and MapBasic development package is responsible for the visualization of the data either geograhically or graphically or textually.
It was also used for developing the "cards" required for effective decision making.
The system provides the following features :
1. User friendly environment along with on-line hefp.
2. Provide easy ways for entering the infonnation.
3. Provide multiple views of the infonnation (i.e. maps,graphs,browsers).
4. Provide infonnation for effective decision making.
5. Provide security procedures.