Sodic Land reclamation Monitoring system with Web based GIS as IT Tool Sunil Kumar Agarwal Sr. Manager(System), UPBSN  Rakesh Kumar Thakur Senior Dy Manager (GIS), UPBSN Abstract In this age of Information Technology, there is a need to explore the new technologies for the efficient and timely response for the various problems. One of the important products of the technology is the visualization of the data on the web. This technology is being used in the reorganization of sodic land and monitoring of sodic land reclamation process. Without using internet based GIS as IT tool it is difficult to carryout the project with the objective of sustainable reclamation of sodic lands and prevention of further increase in sodicity in the selected districts of UP. Web Technology revolutionized Information Technology and its impact on Geographic Information System (GIS) is no exception. Huge volume of data dissemination through Internet made it possible in the development of Internet GIS. Sodic land reclamation process is having a huge database of various activities on the ground that need to be explores with the visualization and then can be utilized at different level for effective monitoring purpose globally. The approach for reclamation of these sodic lands includes survey for distribution of sodic lands, site selection for reclamation, selection of villages, selection of drains, ground water condition, canals location etc. The manual process is time consuming and liable to incorporate inaccuracy and results in wrong decisions. The GIS tools provide fast and accurate method of integrating spatial and non-spatial information and thus provide better decision support system. UP Bhumi Sudhar Nigam has adopted a scientific approach and attained success a great in a large chunks of sodic land in UP. In UPBSN GIS is using as scientific and IT tools in conjunction with Remote Sensing data and extensive field MIS database provide most scientific decision support for identification, maintenance, sustainability analysis and internal effective monitoring of the reclamation process. |