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

Volume

1

fYear

2009

fDate

4-5 July 2009

Firstpage

601

Lastpage

603

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmental Science and Information Application Technology, 2009. ESIAT 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3682-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESIAT.2009.250

Filename

5200193