Agriculture and Research

GIS enables crop pattern study, helps find suitable locations for promoting a specific crop for optimized yield, and estimates the extent of an agricultural hazard due to natural or anthropogenic causes. GIS facilitates the planning of measures to mitigate them, to compare yield of various crops in different regions and to plan mitigation measures against plant diseases.

Farmbase allows an orthophotograph, property information (boundaries and road centrelines) and topographic features (contours, forests and hydrography) to be viewed online. Using the appropriate farm mapping software allows farm managers to measure boundaries, calculate the area of paddocks, draft stock rotation and feed requirements, and plan fertilizer and irrigation applications.

In research areas, GIS is used to prepare base map of the study area, to visualize distribution of parameters (chemical, demographical, physical or any qualitative or quantitative data) and their inter-relationships, model surface water flow, ground water flow, wind patterns, growth of suburban areas around a town, industrial pollution, air and water pollution, environmental impact assessment, waste disposal issues and remedies etc.