A GIS Based Decision Support System for the Cultivation and Management of Eucalypt

Abstract:

A GIS based decision support system for eucalypt cultivation and management was developed. The system can help farmers make decision in planting suitability, eucalypt variety selection, planting scheme making etc. The system can also make an economic evaluation for the selected variety so that users can make decision to plant or not. The system supports two groups of users which are eucalypt farmers who cultivate eucalypt in a small scale and forest farms who cultivate eucalypt in a relatively large scale.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 403-408)
• Pages: 2607-2611
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.403-408.2607
• Online since: November 2011
• Authors: Xin Wen Yu, Yan Chen Yang, Xu Zhang, Xuan Li, Ying Wu Li
• Keywords: Cultivation and Management, Decision Support System (DSS), Eucalypt, Geospatial Information System (GIS)

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