Open AccessGis-based technologies and their application in agriculture
Author(s) -
Emilija Manić
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
glasnik srpskog geografskog društva
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-078X
pISSN - 0350-3593
DOI - 10.2298/gsgd0602151m
Subject(s) - agriculture , geographic information system , gis applications , precision agriculture , computer science , information system , gis and public health , serbian , decision support system , emerging technologies , software , information technology , environmental planning , environmental resource management , data science , knowledge management , geography , engineering , remote sensing , data mining , artificial intelligence , economics , linguistics , philosophy , programming language , archaeology , electrical engineering , operating system
Geographical information systems are in use in business application for a long time, but their usage in agriculture is well known, too. This article shows the main structure of geographical information systems for decision support (spatial decision support systems) as advanced GIS technologies made for solving complex, semistructured or nonstructured problems and their application in the agriculture sector. GIS-based technologies has been reviewed through several examples of their use in agriculture and special respect has been given to the precision farming concept, giving short insight into SSToolbox software (SST). The last part of the article is dedicate to the possible usage of GIS-based technologies in the Serbian agriculture