Designed and Developed by IIITMK as part of National Agriculture Innovation Project

Web GIS Based Weather and Soil information System

Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management – Kerala

Nila, Technopark

Trivandrum

Kerala – 695581

Web: www.iiitmk.ac.in

Radhakrishnan.T

About the Project

Redesigning the farmer extension agricultural research/education continuum in India (www.akmindia.in)

A consortium project under NAIP component - 1

Project Partners

Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

(ICRISAT) Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB) Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala

(IIITM-K) Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology (GBPAU) University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (UASD) National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM)

Project Objectives

Objectives: 1. To build, demonstrate and sustain a model agricultural knowledge

organization and system in support of extension in India; 2. To develop and manage an online and offline forum for management of

farm level Q&A and discussions which is integrated with knowledge generation and organization;

3. To build and demonstrate an online as well as offline multi-modal information delivery arrangement linking online content and expert knowledge with query services;

4.4. To build and sustain geospatial data and knowledge To build and sustain geospatial data and knowledge organization systems to support agricultural research, organization systems to support agricultural research, education and technology transfer;education and technology transfer;

5. To build capacity among agricultural experts in the advanced management of highly integrated information services in support of education, research and extension;

6. To develop methods for viable integration of back-end digital systems and processes to foster autonomous, long term collaboration between the ICT sector and the NARES organizations in India.

Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K)

A premier institute established by Govt. of Kerala located at Technopark Campus (www.iiitmk.ac.in)

Focusing on Academics, research and services on Information Technology and Management areas

Thrust on Application of IT in social sector

E-governance consultants to various departments in the state

Association/Linkages with various national and international organizations

Development and application of advanced technology tools and techniques and its integration with several services components

Proven track record in successful implementation of projects for various departments

Web GIS Based Weather and Soil information System

The Web GIS service was developed with the following objectives;

Integrate a wide range of geo-spatial data Incorporate dynamic Web GIS services Facilitate interactive spatial queries Open scalable architecture with a provision

for future technology enhancements Provide a simple, flexible and easy to use

interface Browser based access completely eliminating

client side processing

The themes

Soil Nutrient Information Spatial Units (GIS) Soil Nutrient information (RDBMS)

Local Weather (Remote Server) Topography (Local Server –Processed NASA

data) Dynamic Cloud Cover (WMS integration from

NASA server) High resolution Satellite Image (Local server)

Daily Cloud cover Image(NASA JPL)

Daily Cloud cover Image(NASA JPL)

Soil NutrientInformation

(Local Server)

Soil NutrientInformation

(Local Server)

Dynamic Geospatial Integration

Web GIS API

Internet

Web GIS Architecture for Soil Nutrient Information

Open Access

Physiography,Accessibility(Local Server)

Physiography,Accessibility(Local Server)

Daily Weather(FallingRain Genomics)

Daily Weather(FallingRain Genomics)

Daily Weather(IMD)

Daily Weather(IMD)

Draw a box to Zoom

Zoom In

Zoom Out

Zoom to Initial View

Zoom to Previous

View

Zoom to Next View

Pan View

Query Help Feedback

Size of the GIS data is reduced by 52 %

RDBMS

GIS dataVector Grid Model

Carries the best of both raster and vector

Vector Grid Model

Tagging multiple attributes to Grid locations

has a “raster-like vector” data model Allows RDBMS connectivity Size reduced by 52 % Avoids the typical GIS problem of “data

generalization and abstraction”

Ctrl + Left Button Soil Nutrient Information

Topography and terrain profile

Cloud cover as on September 25th 2009

Soil Nutrient Information - Thematic display

Technologies

Project Guidance and support

Dr. V. Balaji, Head, Knowledge Management and Sharing, ICRISAT

Dr. N.T. Yaduraju, National Coordinator, NAIP,ICAR, New Delhi

Dr.Prof.Srivathsan, Pro-VC, IGNOU, New Delhi

Thank you….