An agricultural Land Use analysis by the spatial integration data map
Kiyoyuki Yaota
Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Takashi Takebe
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Dept. of Agric. Economics, Graduate School of Agriculture
Kyoto University,
Oiwake-cho, Kitasirakawa
Sakyo, Kyoto Japan 606-8502
Tel: +81-75-753 -6459
Fax: +81-75-753-6459
E-mail: yaota@kais.kyoto- u.ac.jp
Kiyoshi Torii
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Dept. of Agric. Economics, Graduate School of Agriculture
Kyoto University,
Oiwake-cho, Kitasirakawa
Sakyo, Kyoto , Japan 606-8502
Tel: +81-75-753 -6459
Fax: +81-75-753-6459
E-mail: yaota@kais.kyoto- u.ac.jp
Yoshiaki Mori
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Dept. of Agric. Economics, Graduate School of Agriculture
Kyoto University,
Oiwake-cho, Kitasirakawa, Sakyo
Kyoto , Japan 606-8502
Tel: +81-75-753 -6459
Fax: +81-75-753-6459
E-mail: yaota@kais.kyoto- u.ac.jp
Abstract
At present, increase in cultivation -abandoned areas due to aging of farmers and shortage of
successors is raising a trouble in the Japanese farm villages. The agricultural land where cultivation is
given up continues to occur in spite of law maintenance and dealing of the local governments and
agricultural cooperative associations.
Concerning rice fields, on the other hand, a contradiction exists in that the production adjustment
demands a change in crops in the area of a fixed rate even if a condition is good. To pursue the efficiency
in the use of agricultural lands in such conditions, a data map which provides information on the detailed
agricultural lands, farmers’ individual attributes, and so on is needed.
One of the objectives of this research is to analyze occurrences of cultivation-abandoned areas and the
conditions of changing crops in individual farmlands by using satellite images, the aerial photographs and
agricultural land information.
Introduction
In Japanese agricultural management, the use of machines increased the number of person who does
farming on the side and accelerated to find works in another industry, though that contributed to save
many labor inputs. Today, the result of continue that situation, aging of farmers and shortage of
successors increased cultivation-abandoned fields in many agriculture area. Concerning rice fields, the
improvement of productivity was planed by the “agricultural structure improvement project” which change
fields from small and various form to bigger and square, but the production adjustment makes a part of
then changing crop fields and non-cultivate areas.
The non- cultivate areas, especially cultivation- abandoned fields affect around fields in the problems of
weeds and harmful insects, so it is important problem in agriculture land policy to control this area in the
future. All cultivation- abandoned fields doesn’t stable, however, it is impossible to get accurate information
in farmland register.
In this paper, we try to get the information in rice field by using Ikonos satellite image.
