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Easylandscape - A GIS Package

Siddharth Sharma
Siddharth Sharma
Student - B.E. (IT) Final Year, Dehradun Institute of Technology
Address : 65/17 Rajpur Road, Dehradun ( UA )
Phone No: + 91-135-2745222, E-mail: sid_it@hotmail.com


Outline
Easy LANDSCAPE - name given to this Project is a new way to look at GIS Operations . Earlier we had powerful tools like ILWIS , ArcView etc. which had tremendous capabilities of GIS , but a few constraints existed Determination of certain typical Parameters required many commands / operations to be done on the Map which sometimes became cumbersome to users who just had to look up their values to be used elsewhere . Also it required extensive knowledge of all ILWIS commands and functions to obtain results. EasyLANDSCAPE is a step in automating the long process User just hast to select the Map / Table etc . and click on the parameter to be determined and enter any information needed if any With the help of Client - Server model the Interface automatically performs the required operations on ILWIS and the result is displayed. In this Project around thirty parameters referred from the FragStats manual and certain Morphological Watershed Parameters have been successfully implemented

I L W I S -Concepts and Applications
ILWIS stands for Integrated Land and Water Information System. It is a Geographic Information System( GIS ) with Image Processing capabilities ILWIS has been developed by the International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences ( ITC ), Enschede, The Netherlands As a GIS package, ILWIS allows you to input , manage , analyze and present geographical data . From the data you can generate information on the spatial and temporal patterns and processes on the earth surface. Geographical Information Systems are nowadays indispensable in many different fields of application to assist in the decision making process . Most decisions are influenced by some facts of geography. What is at a certain location? Where are the most suitable sites? Where, when and which changes took place?

Some examples
  • In land use planning, GIS is used to evaluate the consequences of different scenarios in the development of a region
  • In Geology, GIS is used to find the most suitable places for mining , or to determine area subject to natural hazards Area that may be affected by pollution are analyzed using GIS functions . Extensions of cities are planned , bases on analysis of many spatial and temporal patterns etc
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