Suitability Assessment System for Cash Crops Production Based on GIS

Author

Liu Zhao ; Liu Jiping ; Mo Nanming

Author_Institution

Geo-spatial Inf. Inst., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing

fYear

2006

fDate

July 31 2006-Aug. 4 2006

Firstpage

884

Lastpage

887

Abstract

The suitability assessment system for cash crops production was developed for the comprehensive utilization of natural resources and the optimization of the crops production structure. As a widely used hi-tech with a powerful function of geo-analysis, GIS demonstrated its potential in map visualization and spatial analysis after combined with suitability assessment models. In this project ArcView was used and the suitability assessment model of multivariate linear regression was developed. For 96 basic assessment units of villages/towns in downstream areas of Lancang River, Yunnan Province, China, the suitability of 14 tropic cash crops was assessed, the assessment result were mapped and the spatial distribution of crops´ suitability was analyzed.

Keywords

crops; geographic information systems; geophysics computing; regression analysis; vegetation mapping; ArcView; China; GIS; Geographical Information System; Lancang river; Yunnan Province; cash crops production; crops production structure; geoanalysis; map visualization; multivariate linear regression; spatial analysis; suitability assessment model; villages-towns units; Crops; Geographic Information Systems; Linear regression; Production systems; Rivers; Rubber; Spatial databases; Sugar industry; Temperature; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2006. IGARSS 2006. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9510-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2006.227

Filename

4241374