Isobord's Geographic Information System (GIS) Solution

2006 ◽  
pp. 64-80
Author(s):  
Derrick J. Neufeld ◽  
Scott Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Database Management System ◽  
Production Plant ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Capital Equipment ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Relational Database Management

Isobord, a start-up company that is setting up a new strawboard production plant in Manitoba, Canada, is facing critical operational problems that threaten its future. Isobord’s product is a high quality particleboard substitute that uses straw, rather than wood, as the main raw manufacturing material. To achieve viability, Isobord must develop processes to carefully coordinate and manage its straw baling, stacking and hauling operations. Through effective information systems, Isobord has the potential to reduce the amount of equipment it needs to purchase to meet straw harvest requirements. A small investment in optimization technology could yield considerable cost savings if the efficiency of capital equipment can be improved. A geographic information system (GIS)/relational database management system (RDBMS) solution is being explored, but budget and time constraints, as well as organizational inexperience, seriously threaten the project. An information technology decision must be made immediately if there is to be any hope of implementing technology to manage the first year’s straw harvest.

Isobord's Geographic Information System (GIS) Solution

2000 ◽  
pp. 169-186
Author(s):  
Derrick J. Neufeld ◽  
Scott Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Database Management System ◽  
Production Plant ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Capital Equipment ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Relational Database Management

Isobord, a start-up company that is setting up a new strawboard production plant in Manitoba, Canada, is facing critical operational problems that threaten its future. Isobord’s product is a high quality particleboard substitute that uses straw, rather than wood, as the main raw manufacturing material. To achieve viability, Isobord must develop processes to carefully coordinate and manage its straw baling, stacking and hauling operations. Through effective information systems, Isobord has the potential to reduce the amount of equipment it needs to purchase to meet straw harvest requirements. A small investment in optimization technology could yield considerable cost savings if the efficiency of capital equipment can be improved. A geographic information system (GIS) / relational database management system (RDBMS) solution is being explored, but budget and time constraints, as well as organizational inexperience, seriously threaten the project. An information technology decision must be made immediately if there is to be any hope of implementing technology to manage the first year’s straw harvest.

Isobord's Geographic Information System (GIS) Solution

2000 ◽  
pp. 91-108
Author(s):  
Derrick J. Neufeld ◽  
Scott Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Database Management System ◽  
Production Plant ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Capital Equipment ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Relational Database Management

Isobord, a start-up company that is setting up a new strawboard production plant in Manitoba, Canada, is facing critical operational problems that threaten its future. Isobords product is a high quality particleboard substitute that uses straw, rather than wood, as the main raw manufacturing material. To achieve viability, Isobord must develop processes to carefully coordinate and manage its straw baling, stacking and hauling operations. Through effective information systems, Isobord has the potential to reduce the amount of equipment it needs to purchase to meet straw harvest requirements. A small investment in optimization technology could yield considerable cost savings if the efficiency of capital equipment can be improved. A geographic information system (GIS) / relational database management system (RDBMS) solution is being explored, but budget and time constraints, as well as organizational inexperience, seriously threaten the project. An information technology decision must be made immediately if there is to be any hope of implementing technology to manage the first years straw harvest.

Isobord's Geographic Information System Solution

2011 ◽  
pp. 343-357
Author(s):  
Derrick J. Neufeld ◽  
Scott Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Time Constraints ◽  
High Quality ◽  
System Solution ◽  
Relational Database Management ◽  
Relational Database Management Systems

This chapter presents a case study of Isobord1, a Canadian manufacturer of high quality particleboard that uses straw instead of wood as the main raw material input. Isobord is facing critical operational problems that threaten its future. Gary Schmeichel, a biotechnology consultant hired by Isobord, must recommend how much straw collection equipment to purchase and what kind of information technology to acquire to help manage equipment dispatch operations. Schmeichel is exploring how geographic information systems (GIS) and relational database management systems (RDBMS) might help manage operations, but budget and time constraints and organizational inexperience seriously threaten these efforts. Decisions must be made immediately if there is to be any hope of implementing a system to manage the first year’s straw harvest. Readers are challenged to put themselves in Schmeichel’s shoes and prepare recommendations for Isobord.

scholarly journals The Development of a Database Management in GIS Applications in Oman

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Osman Abdallah Osman Akif
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Management System ◽  
Database Management ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Database Management System ◽  
National Database ◽  
Gis Applications ◽  
Shared Information

The development of applying database management applications is currently underway within Geographical Information Systems (GIS) applications in the Sultanate of Oman.The establishment of a national database management system in Oman is considered as the backbone that is required within the Geographic Information System project in Oman. The principal of the GIS project in Oman was built upon unifying the used software packages over the sultanate which is ARC/INFO as GIS Package and ORACLE as database management software. These packages are used within the different participating Ministries in the GIS project in Oman.The participating ministries will handle information that are shared between them. The shared information among the different ministries is the attributed data which is defined as descriptive information extracted from geographic features that usually existed on the topographic maps and the ministries maps (utility maps). The map features can be classified into different layers according to the principles of ARC/INFO GIS Package. Accordingly, the main objectives of this research paper is to explain the technique proposed for establishing a national database management system that can handle and manage the shared information amongst the participating ministries in the project. The proposed database design will be made using the ORACLE database management system. Moreover, the paper will handle a proposed idea for linking the geographic map layers with the corresponding attributed database in order to create Geographic Information System applications. As a Conclusion, it is Proposed that all the government GIS departments in the Sultanate will share the same information within a unique national database management which can be considered one of the major benefits in applying database management in the field of Geographic Information Systems.

Development of Bridges Maintenance Management System based on Geographic Information System Techniques (Case study: Al-Muthanna \ Iraq)

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 137-154
Author(s):  
Saif Abdul ameer Aattan ◽  
Maythm Al-Bakri
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Management System ◽  
Satellite Image ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Database Management System ◽  
Maintenance Management ◽  
Attribute Data ◽  
Colour Image

A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computerized database management system for accumulating, storage, retrieval, analysis, and display spatial data. In general, GIS contains two broad categories of information, geo-referenced spatial data and attribute data. Geo-referenced spatial data define objects that have an orientation and relationship in two or three-dimensional space, while attribute data is qualitative data that can be counted for recording and analysis. The main aim of this research is to reveal the role of GIS technology in the enhancement of bridge maintenance management system components such as the output results, and make it more interpretable through dynamic colour coding and more sophisticated visualization techniques than the conventional tabular data format. To achieve the main objective of this research, two study areas have been chosen: the old constructionbridge (Al-Qadisiyah bridge) and the newly constructed bridge (Barboty bridge). Both of them are in Al-Muthanna city \ Iraq. The data collection process was achieved in two stages: the first stage is providing a georeferenced satellite image for each study area for the purpose of producing a two-dimensional map. The second stage includes the field surveying process by total station and level instruments. GIS have been used to create a comprehensive database (Geodatabase) for both study areas. Geostatistical analysis was carried out in which the settlement areas of both study areas were defined by producing a colour image. The statistical tables for these analyses showed that the highest decline in the elevation reached at Al-Qadisiyah bridge to 19 mm in the middle of the bridge which is coloured as a red areas. On the other hand, it was found that the highest decline in the elevation of the Barboty bridge is 16 mm in the last part of steel space which is also coloured as a red areas.

Geographic Information Systems

2020 ◽  
pp. 122-138
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Computer System ◽  
Management System ◽  
Database Management ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Database Management System

The chapter presents the geographic information systems. A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer system that allows various sources to gather and organize, manage, analyze and combine, develop, and present geographically located information contributing in particular to the management from space. A geographic information system is also a database management system for entering, storing, retrieving, querying, analyzing, and displaying localized data. It is a set of data located in space, structured so that it can conveniently extract syntheses useful to the decision.

scholarly journals Development of Bridges Maintenance Management System based on Geographic Information System Techniques

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
Saif Abdul Ameer Wattan ◽  
Maythm Al-Bakri
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Management System ◽  
Satellite Image ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Database Management System ◽  
Maintenance Management ◽  
Attribute Data ◽  
Colour Image

A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computerized database management system for accumulating, storage, retrieval, analysis, and display spatial data. In general, GIS contains two broad categories of information, geo-referenced spatial data and attribute data. Geo-referenced spatial data define objects that have an orientation and relationship in two or three-dimensional space, while attribute data is qualitative data that can be counted for recording and analysis. The main aim of this research is to reveal the role of GIS technology in the enhancement of bridge maintenance management system components such as the output results, and make it more interpretable through dynamic colour coding and more sophisticated visualization techniques than the conventional tabular data format. To achieve the main objective of this research, two study areas have been chosen: the old construction bridge (Al-Qadisiyah bridge) and the newly constructed bridge (Barboty bridge). Both of them are in Al-Muthanna city \ Iraq. The data collection process was achieved in two stages: the first stage is providing a georeferenced satellite image for each study area for the purpose of producing a two-dimensional map. The second stage includes the field surveying process by total station and level instruments. GIS have been used to create a comprehensive database (Geodatabase) for both study areas. Geostatistical analysis was carried out in which the settlement areas of both study areas were defined by producing a colour image. The statistical tables for these analyses showed that the highest decline in the elevation reached at Al-Qadisiyah bridge to 19 mm in the middle of the bridge which is coloured as a red area. On the other hand, it was found that the highest decline in the elevation of the Barboty bridge is 16 mm in the last part of steel space which is also coloured as a red area.  

scholarly journals DATA VISUALIZATION FOR PIG HERDS IN TRA VINH PROVINCE BASED ON GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS)

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Quoc Khac Nguyen ◽  
Sang Van Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Database Management ◽  
Processing Map ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Database Management System ◽  
Map Data

Building a system of data visualization of pig herds in Tra Vinh province based on GIS (Geographic Information System) will help management agencies update, do statistical analysis of and forecast the fluctuation in pig herds within the provincial area. Since then, pig farmers will have reliable information, which canmake their investment more efficient. The system is built on the WebGIS platform combining solutions for processing map data with PostGIS - an extension of PostgreSQL database management system to manage GIS objects. Additionally, the system will also provide solutions to handle and share pig herd data on the map with Geoserver - an open source server with the aim of connecting geographic information from PostGIS to Geoweb.

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