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Use of GIS in Medicinal Plants Conservation Parks
Functions of the System :
- This system serves as a road map to the users about EMF. It provides information on concept of establishing the EMF with associated elements before they actually visit.
- It helps the users in different ways i.e using this system one can easily locate any species for their study/ identification and reach the desired grid with ease.
- Major advantage of this system is that it helps field managers in planning plantation since it gives information about the mortality, number of big trees, small trees, herbs, shrubs, climbers etc in each grid. It becomes easy to plan which species has to be planted in which grid and at which location depending upon the habit and association of the species in its surrounding area.
- One can locate a species by its botanical name. It is also capable of locating a species by its vernacular name since all the users are not aware of botanical name of the species.
- This provides users grid wise details on species availability and its status.
- It gives detailed information of each species w.r.t flowering, fruiting, identification characters, medicinal uses, and herbarium number.
- This system helps in filtering out species as per its habit wise, threat, endemic and monotypic status
- This provides a facility where a user can get the name of the species indicated on the grid pictorially by clicking on it (see screen).
Conclusions :
The MPCP-GIS system has helped the MPCP in following ways :
- The data maintenance related to EMF has become simple and effective.
- The data retrieval is efficient .
- The system is a very useful education tool for the visitors to conceptualize the EMF and retrieve specific information for their benefit.
- The systems serves in management aspects of the EMF like re-plantation of dead specimen.
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