Web GIS Based Decision Support System for Agriculture Monitoring and Management

 

Agriculture plays an important role in the economic and societal development of any country. In today’s world, internet and open source technologies are changing the access and transmission of spatial data, applications, visualizations and disseminations. Recent developments in web GIS technology are featured with the GIS and internet functionality. The present study describes the design and development of a web based Agricultural Monitoring and Management System (AMMS) for the main crops of Punjab state, India. The platform is designed and developed by combining open source technologies apache server, geoserver, open layers and postgre SQL (with post GIS extension). JavaScript libraries and open layers are implemented to serve geospatial services as client. A user friendly interactive interface has been developed to visualize and analyses the seasonal and inter seasonal spatial variability and statistical summary for the entire state. The key features of the developed system are the availability of agricultural information for Punjab state for a decision making process. A decision support system which includes the crops type and statistics of cultivated area under various crops along with the satellite derived agro-meteorological parameters. Developed AMMS facilitates the users to analyses the spatio-temporal information pertaining to crop types, cultivated area, crop conditions, meteorological sub divisions and warehouses locations etc. to disseminate the information among various users and decision makers.