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Press Release - November
28th 2006
The Victorian State Government, working closely with a number
of Catchment Management Authorities CMAs, has developed and
trialed a web-based application called eFarmer, which supports
the capture, viewing and sharing Natural Resource Management
information across farms, landscapes and catchments.
The eFarmer application is designed to support planning for
farms and catchments. The web application informs private
land managers of the natural resource management priorities
of the CMA within which they reside and allows them to identify
proposed and voluntarily implemented activities on their properties
that may contribute to the achievement of CMA catchment wide
targets.
The eFarmer project trial was highly commended at the 2006
Victorian Spatial Excellence Awards recently held in Melbourne.
Spatial Vision was contracted to design the application and
develop the web-based prototype version. The eFarmer prototype
has now been trialed for four months by a range of stakeholders
including land managers, catchment planners and extension
officers, to evaluate its ability to:
• improve understanding of the intentions and actions
of landholders regarding changes in land management practice,
• provide a tool to help communicate regional priorities
and targets to land managers, and
• contribute to more complete reporting on regional
progress towards targets
Spatial Vision developed the prototype application using
J2EE technologies with the spatial functionality based on
OpenGIS standards and open source GIS server software. The
mapping interface was developed using the OpenGIS version
of the Internet Mapping Framework (IMF) Java framework from
Moxi Media and the textual and spatial data held in an Oracle
RDBMS using Oracle Locator. eFarmer is currently hosted by
Spatial Vision’s commercial web hosting service.
If the evaluation of the prototype application demonstrates
that the application has sufficient value and applicability
then it may proceed to a full-scale system.
For further information, please contact:
Ian Miller
Ph: (03) 9691 3000
email info@spatialvision.com.au
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