A Meteorological Data Service System and its Application

Abstract:

Meteorological conditions play an important role in agricultural practice and agricultural DSS usually takes weather data as a critical data source. A meteorological data service system was designed and implemented to provide better performance for Chinese users. Based on the service system, a web application providing online weather data retrieval and downloading was also developed. The service system was practically used in a decision support system for eucalypt management, and proved to be very feasible as an online weather data source for agricultural decision support system. Base on this service system, it is expected that agricultural researchers and decision support systems can easily obtain weather data and further improve their agricultural decision making process.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 304)
• Pages: 310-315
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.304.310
• Online since: July 2011
• Authors: Xin Wen Yu, Yan Chen Yang, Xu Zhang
• Keywords: Agricultural Application, Decision Support System (DSS), Service System, Weather Data, Web Application

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