[OSGeo-Discuss] OS GIS for Grazing Planning

[Stefan Steiniger]

Hei Frank,

not sure but there was a precision farming project Pirol using OpenJUMP, 
but I guess what they did is/was quite different?

http://www.al.fh-osnabrueck.de/pirol-english0.html

however, Arnd is still around on the OpenJUMP user list, so I can give 
you his email.

stefan

Frank Aragona wrote:
> We would probably want to start with desktop.  My thinking is that 
> something like Grass or QGIS could plug into a PostGIS database.  What 
> we need is something that allows the user to input some basic variables, 
> like available forage (in animal days per acre/hectare), paddock sizes, 
> herd size, grazing recovery period, etc., and the database will output 
> some grazing plan maps plus some charts and figures showing the user 
> what will be occurring on the landscape.  To go into more detail, we'd 
> have to discuss how we are doing the grazing planning now, which is 
> basically all pen and paper.
> 
> Frank
> 
> Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>> Il 22/06/2010 18:58, Frank Aragona ha scritto:
>>> Is anybody aware of the use of open source GIS tools for grazing
>>> planning?  I'm very interested in the prospects of taking a pre-existing
>>> platform and further developing it.  Or, in the absence of such a
>>> platform (which is likely), I'd like to develop and work with partners
>>> in the development of this platform.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>> desktop, web, or both? What are your requirements?
>> all the best.
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