INCORPORATING GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION AND ANIMATION IN A MOBILE WEB-BASED IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
| Chanon Pansamuth and Sally E. Goldin |
| Published in | Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mobile Mapping Technology (MMT 2013) , Tainan, Taiwan, May 2013. |
| Type of article | Conference Paper |
| Year | 2013 |
| Abstract |
| Water resources are very important for agriculture in Thailand. Many irrigation projects have been built to provide improved systems for using water resources efficiently. Irrigation officials in Thailand currently use a special offline application to compute water requirements. However, farmers lack access to information from the management application, so they do not understand the irrigation plans and sometimes do not follow them. In our research we have designed and implemented a mobile web application to provide farmers with information about irrigation plans and outcomes. We have integrated a mathematical model to calculate the amount of water delivered to each section of canal system, using geographic information about irrigation canal structure, location and connectivity. We have also created a simple spatial simulation and a dynamic visualization capability. Our application can help the farmers to monitor the water situation in order to understand and follow water management plans. It also allows them easy access to irrigation data while they are in their fields. Our special purpose GIS application is designed for use in the Nam Oon irrigation project but the software can easily be adapted to other irrigation systems. It allows farmers to optimize the water delivered to their fields and hopefully, to improve agricultural productivity. |
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