Web-based GIS services in participatory forest management in China

Author

Yumin, Tan ; Tianhe, Chi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Civil Eng., Beijing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut.

Volume

7

fYear

2004

fDate

20-24 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

4795

Abstract

The recognition of relevant stakeholders´ participation in natural resource management process can be seen internationally. For participatory forest management, the challenge is to provide convenient ways for users to find the information they have interests in, make spatial analyses, add their own comments in variable formats, and so on. GIS has been proved to be an efficient technology, and the ever-increasing Internet, especially www, gives the possibility of efficient participation. In this paper, the authors give a clear definition of GIS Services and its application mode in forest management and the bi-directional characteristic of participatory GIS Services is emphasized, which is different from the traditional Web GIS. This is made operational and tested for a forest management scheme in Nan´an county, Fujian province

Keywords

Internet; Web sites; forestry; geographic information systems; geophysics computing; management information systems; natural resources; vegetation mapping; China; Internet; Nanan county; natural resource management; participatory forest management; spatial analyses; web-based GIS Services; Civil engineering; Content addressable storage; Engineering management; Geographic Information Systems; Information analysis; Remote sensing; Resource management; Web and internet services; Web server; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8742-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1370233

Filename

1370233