Showing papers by "Daphne Lopez published in 2012"

Decision making in agriculture based on land suitability - spatial data analysis approach

Abstract: India, being an agricultural country analysis of so il texture and water resource plays a vital role in increasing the productivity of crops. The area of study is Vellore district in Tamil Nadu where agric ulture is the main occupation. Though it is a fact, most o f the land remains uncultivated due to the lack of knowledge of soil and water wealth. This paper prop oses a method to analyze the suitability of land ba sed on soil and water resource and predicts the yeild. Initially we apply Analytical Hierarchical Process to evaluate the influence of these factors on producti vity. Weighted Overlay Analysis is then used for de riving at the productivity map by imposing the soil and wa ter resource map over the base map. The resultant m ap is used to mine interesting patterns which gives us potential results in the form of rules that has a high societal impact. The Agricultural administrative au thorities can take a decision and help people in converting a barren land into a fertile land thereb y increasing the productivity.