Title

An integrated approach for agricultural ecosystem management

Authors

Authors

L. D. Xu; N. Liang;Q. Gao

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part C-Appl. Rev.

Keywords

enterprise information systems (EIS); information infrastructure; service industry; service sector; system integration; systems approach; DECISION-SUPPORT-SYSTEM; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; INFORMATION-SYSTEM; SIMULATION; MODEL; IRRIGATION; DYNAMICS; NITROGEN; PROGRAM; DSIRR; Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science, ; Cybernetics; Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications

Abstract

Sustainable development and growth of agriculture sector calls for improving its competitiveness through a better understanding of lands, weather and climate, and planting, especially prediction of events with increased accuracy, and systematic integration of observations and prediction into decision-making in agriculture management. In this short paper, a systematic approach based on integrated information systems (IISs) for agricultural ecosystem management is proposed. The approach involves establishing an IIS called agricultural ecosystem enterprise information system (AEEIS) that extracts data on terrain, land use, planting, and others, and integrates them for the purpose of agricultural and ecosystem management. The integration helps in generating managerial/policy alternatives in consultation not only with agricultural and ecological specialists, but also with agriculture and ecosystems management. AEEIS, a platform of enterprise information systems, includes operational database, extract transform and load, data warehouse, data mining, simulation modeling, and knowledge management for generating managerial strategies on land use, planting species/variety, and optimal coverage of plants. AEEIS is part of efforts on integrated agricultural information services that is one of the main applications of China's sustainable agricultural development plan. The short paper concludes that, for effective management of agriculture and ecosystems, a systematic approach is essential in which IISs play a crucial role.

Journal Title

Ieee Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C-Applications and Reviews

Volume

38

Issue/Number

4

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

590

Last Page

599

WOS Identifier

WOS:000256967400011

ISSN

1094-6977

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