LDD'S Application programs for sharing GIT among less skilled endusers


EROSView is an application program to retrieve lands that are prone to erosion under ArcView environment in Thai Graphic User Interface Windows. Spatial parts compose of soil, land use/ land cover, density of rain fall and erosion hazard while soil properties, land use and names are attributes. It can be retrieving and analyzing soil erosion and factors inducing erosion through Thai menu bars in terms of administrative units, main watersheds and project areas.



ThaiPedon was developed by visualBasic6.0 with Map Object 30 for retrieving soil typical profiles (USDA, 1999) from the soil maps. Their descriptions included taxonomy, properties and pictures of the profiles. The system combines soil map of scale 1:50,000 in shape files and their attributes that were linked with their pictures by Microsoft JetOLEDB 4.0. There are main menues: areas, administrative units, soil information and their suitability in specific purposes.

Training and Technical support Training and Technical support will be provided by LDD and/or Chiang Mai University both in LDD head office (Bangkok) and Its regional offices as well as individual and institutions concern by request to make the application possible for poorly skilled end users.

References
  • FAO, 1976. A framework for land evaluation. Soils Bulletin 32, FAO, Rome, 79 p.
  • USDA, 1999. Soil Taxonomy, A basic system of soil classfication for making and interpreting soil survey, USDA Agricultural handbook no.436
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