Building Web-Based Farm Information System Using 3D Visualization Technology

Building Web-Based Farm Information System Using 3D Visualization Technology.

ABSTRACT

Better developments in farming have been achieved when the information required by farmers on agricultural technologies are made available as accessing latest information of agricultural activities will produce a sustainable farming improvement.

The research is aimed at the dissemination of information to farmers through 3D visualization technology forthe development of agriculture to improve the life of citizen.

The thesis examines the basic 3D form of visualization technology of major plants found in the farms of Jigawa State farming environment.

The methods used in the research provided a review of the related work in order to make a clear understanding of two dimensional works. Next, itmade designed of the farm information model using Sketchup with Ruby for three-dimensional farms.

It started with observing some works previously done on disseminating information to farmers including organization and surveyed project based on how toimprove the flow of agricultural information through modern channels for sustainable farming development where the works are not 3D enabled form of disseminating information

The research continues with design of Web-based farm information technology which is a 3D form of information dissemination.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION…………….iii

CERTIFICATION……….. iv

DEDICATION……………… v

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT…….. vi

ABSTRACT………………………ii

LIST OF TABLE……………… xi

LIST OF FIGURES……………xii

ABREVIATIONS……………..xiii

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

• Background of the study……………..1
• Statement of the Research Problem…………..4
• Motivation……………. 5
• Aim and Objectives of the Thesis…………..6
• Methodology………………6
• Organization of the Thesis……………7

CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW

• Introduction…………… 9
• 3D form of Visualization…………..9
• Why 3D?………………..11
• Geographic Information System (GIS)……………..13
• Google Earth………………14
• Description of the study Area……………… 14
• Review of farm management software…………..16
• Review of related literature……………….17
• Limitation of the existing work…………. 30

CHAPTER THREE:DESIGN OF WEB BASED FARM INFORMATION SYSTEM

• Introduction…………………. 32
• System Requirement…………….. 32
• System Architecture……………….33
  • GIS map layer……………..34
  • Data layer…………………….35
  • Interface layer………………37
• Dataflow……………………… 38
• Design of GIS map……………….40
• Designing 3D Farm model…………..40
• 3D farm on Google Earth………….. 41

CHAPTER FOUR: IMPLEMENTATION AND DISCUSSIONS

• Introduction………………… 43
• Tools and Platform………………43
  • Google Earth………………………..3
  • Keyhole Markup Language (KML)……….43
  • ArcGIS……………….44
  • Ruby Programming Language…………….. 44
  • Google Sketchup……………………. 45
  • COLLADA…………………. 45
  • HTML………………..45
  • Geodabase……………….45
• Code Implementation………………45
  • User Search Interface code……………….46
  • Zone Searching…………………. 46
  • Accessing the Google Earth…………47
  • 3D model………………49
• Testing……………….49
  • User Interface Level…………49
• GIS Maps Level………………..51
  • Data level…………………… 52
  • Modeling the 3D effect………….. 53
• Results and Discussion…………….56
  • Comparison of reviewed and proposed research……61

CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

• Summary…………………64
• Conclusion…………………65
• Recommendation…………..66
• Future Work……………….67

References…………….. 69

Appendix         77

INTRODUCTION

Computer technology has improved many aspects of the oldest occupations, which is Agriculture. In Agriculture, these improvements include automated milk collection that comprises the robotic milking machine and

the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture, automated Weather station, Geographic Positioning System (GPS)in agriculture and computerized farmland assessment.

With this, it is believed that computers have transformed farming activities.

Advanced disseminating agricultural information technology has brought about strong changes in farming practices such as Information and Communication Technology application in agriculture, Mobile phone application of Agriculture and internet application of Agriculture.

With this application, it results in a wonderful increase in the production capacity of Agriculture. The most common use of computers in today‟s agriculture has been in replacing human work and involvement in oldest farming machinery and other farming tools.

The automatic forms of farming such as use of machines and the application of fertilizers are in use. With all these we can say computers have changed farming systems while the Internet has also doubled that change toward agricultural information dissemination.

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