Open AccessA Web-Enabled GIS Platform for Agricultural Land Use
Author(s) -
Gemma G. Acedo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/803/1/012002
Subject(s) - agriculture , livelihood , geographic information system , business , environmental resource management , environmental planning , land use , agricultural land , profiling (computer programming) , land management , gis day , information system , geography , computer science , remote sensing , engineering , gis and public health , environmental science , civil engineering , electrical engineering , archaeology , operating system
One of the important and leading sources of livelihood in Catanduanes is agriculture. Agriculture has been an avenue to help improve the Philippine economy. To further boost the agriculture industry, the researcher aimed to design and develop a web-enabled GIS platform for agricultural land use that contains a database socio-demographic profile and geographic physical information details of agricultural lands of the province. Data collected are subjected to analysis of an approach in the development and implementation of the study and set as bases for government implementation and a possible policy that assist farmers and local communities. The features of the system help the local leaders to strategize activities and easily facilitate the identification, monitoring, forecasting, visualization, and analysis of situations on Agricultural land use. The acceptability rating of the system developed is 4.72 highly acceptable according to system users. The web-enabled GIS serves as an initiative to improve agricultural land use system by integrating GIS in terms of locating, mapping, profiling, and land management in the province. It is expected through this endeavour that an increase in harvest rate will benefit farmers and local communities. Utilization is expected to help combat climate change and preserve the environment and its ecosystem.