The Australian Collaborative Rangelands Information System: preparing for a climate of change

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 111 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. N. Bastin ◽  
D. M. Stafford Smith ◽  
I. W. Watson ◽  
A. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Ground Cover ◽  
Livestock Grazing ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Dynamic Web ◽  
Level Information ◽  
Funding Programs ◽  
Monitoring Activity

Change is a constant in Australia’s rangelands. Appropriate management of this change requires a sound knowledge of drivers (e.g. climate variability, livestock grazing), their impacts on natural resources (state and trend), socio-economic outcomes, and how these feed back through learning and adaptive management to affect drivers and their impacts. Information is required at scales from enterprise to national, with regional and broader level information serving to influence rangelands governance through institutional arrangements, policy and funding programs. The Australian Collaborative Rangelands Information System (ACRIS) collates and analyses data from national sources and from its State and Territory jurisdictional partners to track and understand change at regional to national scales. ACRIS has recently reported changes between 1992 and 2005 in several biophysical and socio-economic themes at bioregional resolution. This paper describes the processes used to collate and analyse the often disparate data, to synthesise information across data types and to integrate emergent higher order information across drivers, impacts and outcomes to provide more complete understanding of change. Data gaps and inconsistencies were a major challenge, and we illustrate how some of these issues were addressed by using indicators to report changes in biodiversity. ACRIS now needs to foster increased coordinated monitoring activity and develop its reporting capacity to become the valued information system for Australia’s rangelands. We propose that future improvements will be best structured within a hierarchically nested framework that provides consistent overarching data at national scale relevant to the variety of rangeland values (e.g. change in ground cover) but focuses on regionally-relevant ecosystem services, and their appropriate measures, at the regional scale. A key challenge is to implement consistent and systematic methods for monitoring biodiversity within this hierarchical framework, given limited institutional resources. Finally, ACRIS needs to develop a dynamic web-based delivery system to enable more frequent and flexible reporting of interpreted change than is possible through periodic published reports.

scholarly journals Design of a web – based online Contract Administrative System platform of an Engineering firm

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (05) ◽  
pp. 24612-24620
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Nwabueze Ekwonwune ◽  
Duru Ngozi A. ◽  
Uka Kanayo K.
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Administrative System ◽  
Web Based ◽  
System Analysis And Design ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
System A ◽  
Dynamic Web ◽  
Structured System

This paper is aimed at designing a dynamic web – based Contract Bidding Information System that will be used to register details online to enable bidding for advertised contracts. It was motivated by the growing recognition of the need to modify bidding operation previously done manually. The Structured System Analysis and Design Methodology (SSADM) was used to develop a contract bidding system. A web – based application will be developed to enable bidders register and submit their biddings online.

scholarly journals Web-mapping of solar energy potential in Yakutia

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-220
Author(s):  
German Titov ◽  
Anna Prasolova ◽  
Pavel Kargashin
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Mapping ◽  
Decentralized Energy ◽  
The Web

It is cost effective and environmentally rational to develop renewable energy source in sthe territories of decentralized energy supply, since it allows replacing diesel power generation. Yakutia has a high potential for the development of solar energy and 64 % of its area is in the zone of decentralized energy supply. The features of web mapping—interactivity, multiscale and availability—are useful for assessment of big multi-temporal data on solar resources at the regional scale. Web mapping shows one parameter for Yakutia—all sky insolation incident on a horizontal surface per day per square meter. The parameter is used to assess the potential of solar energy resources in the territory. Initial data comes from the Surface meteorology and Solar Energy archive of the NASA Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resource—SSE NASA POWER project. It includes monthly and annual average global grids for each year from 1984 to 2018. The web application allows users to map the data by grid points, by administrative units and by watersheds. Users can interactively set a period with an accuracy of a month and a territorial division for drawing up a map. The web-based mapping application allows users to create about 50,000 web maps in total. The number based on query combinations available to the user. A large amount of data used for web mapping requires the development of an information system for the dynamic delivery of data at the user’s request. Data preprocessing algorithm helps efficiently aggregate data “on-the-fly” for various territorial units. The DeckGL cartographic library gives high-performance visualization of big spatial data in the browser. We use PostgreSQL and Flask software to develop the information system. Web mapping is useful for the assessment of solar energy resources specifically at the regional level. Interactive tools provided by the web-based mapping applications deepen the analytical content of the cartographic work. There are notable changes in the data preparation through the design of web-based mapping applications in comparison with regular maps.

PERANCANGAN SISTEM INFORMASI GEOGRAFIS PARIWISATA BERBASIS WEB DI DINAS KEPEMUDAAN DAN OLAHRAGA DAN PARIWISATA KABUPATEN KEBUMEN

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Ari Waluyo ◽  
Satria Budi Santoso
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographical Information System ◽  
System Development ◽  
Unified Modeling Language ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Unified Modeling ◽  
Tourism Information ◽  
Object Oriented Approach

The purpose of this research is to know the geographic information system of tourism that is in Dinas Kepemudaan dan Olahraga dan Pariwisata Kebumen Regency and develop it Research methods used by doing observationin Dinas Kepemudaan dan Olahraga dan Pariwisata Kebumen Regency, then proceed with the system development method. the research method used is by the method of SDLC (System Development Life Cycle). By using the Software Notepad ++ to build tourism Geographical Information System web-based. PHP as a programming language, MySQL as the database server and the design of the map using the Google Maps API. The object-oriented approach that is used UML (Unified Modeling Language) can explain the flow of the existing system. Dinas Kepemudaan dan Olahraga dan Pariwisata Kebumen Regency has been doing promotion through mass media such as newspapers and brochures in the delivery of information. But the way is not enough to inform tourism and places of attractions. It is therefore through the design of Geographical information system of tourism was able to resolve the issue. After the results of the study of geographic information systems is expected delivery of tourism information becomes more widespread, and the tourists could be quick and precise in finding information a tourist want to visit.

Design for Maintenance: How Kms Document Linking Decisions Affect Maintenance Effort and Use

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 312-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan R Dennis ◽  
Binny M Samuel ◽  
Kelly McNamara
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
System Development ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Information System Development ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Useful Knowledge ◽  
Design Considerations ◽  
Dynamic Content ◽  
System Maintenance ◽  
The Cost

Information system maintenance is an important aspect of information system development, especially in systems that provide dynamic content, such as Web-based systems and Knowledge Management Systems (KMS). Design for Maintenance (DFM) is an approach that argues that maintenance effort should be considered during the design of information systems in addition to the usual system design considerations. This research examines how the design of links among knowledge documents in a KMS affects both their maintenance and use. We argue that providing links among knowledge documents increases the cost of maintenance because when a document changes, the documents that link to and from that document are more likely to need changes. At the same, linking knowledge documents makes it easier to locate useful knowledge and thus increases use. We examine this tension between use and maintenance using 10 years of data from a well-established KMS. Our results indicate that as the number of links among documents increases, both maintenance effort and use for these documents increase. Our analyses suggest two DFM principles for dynamic content in practice. First, knowledge coupling (i.e., linking) to documents internal to the KMS rather than sources external to the KMS better balances maintenance effort and use. Second, designing small, knowledge cohesive documents (e.g., 250-350 words) leads to the best balance between maintenance effort and use.

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