The Designing and Development of the Information System for Pest Rodent Monitoring in Rural Areas

To meet the demands of monitoring and controlling of pest rodents in rural areas in China, the information system for rodent monitoring in rural areas was designed and developed. The system includes three sub-systems: data collection software on the basis of PDA +GPS, information management system, and information query system for rodent spatial distributing characteristics based on WebGIS. The data collecting software, consists of 2 modules (night trapping method module and valid holes method module), can be used to record pest rodents field-monitoring data binding with position data and transfer the data to the database as main data source of the system. The information management system can manage the data recorded by PDA and provide data for WebGIS system. The information query system can provide various spatial distribution characteristics of pest rodents to users and assist users to primarily determine pest rodents´ trends by a multi-criteria query function. The system is integrated with the data recording, transferring, managing, and providing information query services. It laid the foundation for further pest rodents´ prediction and forecast in rural areas in China.