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Use of GIS in Medicinal Plants Conservation Parks
Design of MPCP-GIS Package :
GIS package is developed using MapInfo 4 and MapBasic 4.
MPCP-GIS Package Concept :
Diagrammatic representation of function (outputs) of the system :
Why GIS?
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As GIS is capable of assembling, storing, manipulating and displaying geographically referenced information i.e. data identified according to their location.
- Structure of EMF is basically composed of three different layers namely girds, landscape elements and species planted. These layers can be combined into one image showing how they relate to one another and also analyze which part of the forest is more crumbled or less crumbled or which part of the forest has a particular species or which part of the forest has water bodies etc.
Scope of the System :
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Online data entry of plants.
- Filtering out species according to their habit i.e. small trees, big trees, herbs, shrubs, climbers.
- Filtering out species according to their status i.e. RET (Rare Endangered and Tthreatened), endemic (distribution is restricted to particular area), monotypic (only one species in a genus) and exotic (foreign plants).
- Information about a species where it is located in the grid, date when it was collected (accession information), location from where it was collected, flowering, fruiting, and its medicinal use.
- Marking a plant as dead (mortality).
- Grid wise reports i.e. counts of herbs, shrubs, climbers, small trees, big trees, list of species planted.
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