Agriculture Cloud Service
Scenario
Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan makes a scheme for “Agriculture Cloud Service Project” to focus on improvement of agriculture cloud development and builds comprehensive essential data of agriculture in Taiwan through cloud computing technologies. Working with cloud service, Agriculture Cloud Service Project also employs Information and Communication Technology to enhance sustainable development of agriculture.
Based on this cloud computing project, Taiwan Agriculture Research Institute Council of Agriculture put forward “Cloud Service for Agricultural Production Area Management” to substantially share and integrate agriculture information and relevant workflows. Worked with cloud computing technologies, “Cloud Service for Agricultural Production Area
Agriculture Cloud Service
Management” integrates and provides agriculture-related information such as Weather, Soil, Fertilizer Application Management, Insect Pest Alert, Agriculture Disaster, etc.
Goals
This project is designed to build a database and agricultural information system for agriculture cloud. Over the Internet, all the data on agriculture cloud database will be integrated into map through GIS geoprocessing technologies. Thus, agricultural specialists, tillage managers and farmers can quickly query agricultural and geo-spatial-related information such as records of climate change, weather forecasts, water resource, soil, geological information, topographic information, and disaster prevention information and so on.
Solutions
Agriculture Cloud Database: Collecting agriculture-related data of soil and water resource and managing database.
Worked on SuperGIS Server, GIS is adopted as the core technology of agriculture cloud database to integrate and geoprocess agriculture-related information including weather, water resource, soil, fertilizer application management, insect pest alert, production marketing, and agriculture disaster prevention.
Agriculture Information Application and Integration System: Providing information for multilevel decision making and environment development. Worked on SuperGIS Server, GIS is also employed as the core technology combining with knowledge bases and decision support databases in various domains to develop Agriculture Information Application and Integration System.
Results
This project emphasize two topics, “Agriculture-related Data of Soil and Water Resource Collection and Database Management” and “Information Providing for Multilevel Decision Making and Environment Development”, of Cloud Service for Agricultural Production Area Management” to build the most exquisite spatial managing database (Agriculture Cloud Database) and provide agricultural specialists, tillage managers and farmers with Agricultural Information System to quickly query agriculture and spatial-related spatial information.
In “Agriculture-related Data of Soil and Water Resource Collection and Database Management”, GIS geoprocessing technology is employed to classify, store and manage geospatial data in cloud database for enhancing integrity and accuracy of agriculture-related digital information in Taiwan.
The agriculture cloud database built through SuperGIS Server takes GIS as core technology to geoprocess agriculture-related information, including weather, water resource, soil, fertilizer application management, insect pest alert, production marketing, and agriculture disaster prevention.
Process of making multilevel decision relates to diverse divisions. Each division may be responsible for managing data in different spatial domains. For example, natural resource data management contains managements of different categories like Weather, Watershed, soil and so forth. Thus, for maintaining consistency of content and data quality in cloud, agriculture cloud database processes data to show integrity, effectiveness and spatial precision of data features to ensure application feasibility of integrated data. GIS geoprocessing technology is employed to classify agriculture-related decision data in the database according to Common Land Unit (CLU); and the classified data will be used to display tillage information. In this way, the most exquisite agriculture-related spatial data of management can be built.
In “Information Providing for Multilevel Decision Making and Value-plus Environment Development” , data on agriculture cloud will be integrated into map on GIS for agricultural specialists, tillage managers and farmers to quickly query agriculture-related spatial information such as records of climate change, weather forecasts, water resource, soil, geological information, topographic information, disaster prevention information and so on.
Built through SuperGIS Server, Agriculture Information Application and Integration System also employs GIS as core technology and combines with various knowledge bases and decision support databases to display agriculture-related information in agriculture cloud database with performance of map, statistical diagram and visualized chart. Data in agriculture cloud database is sorted into seven categories, including Weather, Water Resource, Soil, Fertilizer Application Management, Insect Pest Alert, Production Marketing, and Agriculture Disaster Prevention. Moreover, this Agriculture Information Application and Integration System also supports to connect to websites of diverse divisions such as Council of Agriculture and Weather Bureau for more information.
To satisfy in-situ application feature of agriculture, “Multilevel Agriculture Information Application and Integration System” is designed as a web application for both of desktop and App usage.
“Multilevel Agriculture Information Application and Integration System App” is particularly designed for iPAD. This App supports agricultural specialists, tillage managers and farmers to query agriculture-related spatial information of specified tillage quickly and effectively by positioning the tillage with GPS and selecting the information category. Content of agriculture-related Information in this App categories contain Records of Climate Change, Bad Weather Alert, Tillage Information, Losses from Disaster and Statistics of Losses from Disaster.
1. GPS: Users can query a specified tillage by selecting tillage parcel number with GPS function.
2. Tillage Information: After positioning with GPS, users will enter tillage information page. Tillage information includes tillage owner, crops, area, address, etc. By clicking on screen of iPAD, users can modify the data they recorded.
3. Records of Climate Change: Click “Records of Climate Change”, users can enter the page to query records of climate change.
GPS Positioing
records of climate change
4. Bad Weather Alert: In this page, users can view 3-hours weather in the tillage area, one-week weather forecasts and information of climatic risk. Click more, users can enter Forecasts page of Central Weather Bureau and view weather forecasts of 368 townships in Taiwan.
5. Insect Pest Alert: Users can enter this page to view relevant information like alert published date, township, type of the insect pest, primary period of prevention, pesticide, etc, of the alert district. The whole alert information will be shown in Alert Content; and what in Suggestions for Preventions tells how to prevent insect pest well. Click more, users can enter Infestation of Insect Pest Alert for Crops page within website of Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, to view records of infestation of insect pest alerts.
6. Tillage Information: In this category, users can browse records of the tillage information including chemical data of soil (e.g., essential soil information, pH value, organic matter) and crops on the tillage.
7. Losses from Disaster: Click this category, users can view records of losses from disaster and make new records. Records of losses from disaster show disaster-related information like date, disaster type, crop, damaged area and damaged proportion, recorder, etc. Users can click pictures to enlarge and view the picture.
8. Statistics of Losses from Disaster: Enter Statistics of Losses from Disaster page, users can view damaged area and damage proportion of tillage in each township.
statistics of losses from disaster
System Benefit
The agriculture cloud database developed in this project employs GIS technologies from SuperGIS Server to integrate, classify, store and manage primary information of agriculture and significantly enhances integrity and accuracy of agriculture-related digital information in Taiwan. With “Agriculture Information Application and Integration System” and “Agriculture Information Application and Integration System App”, all the data in agriculture cloud database can be integrated into map on GIS for agricultural specialists, tillage managers and farmers to rapidly and effectively query agriculture-related spatial information according to different spatial categories.