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Title: Evaluation of current state of agricultural land using problem-oriented fuzzy indicators in GIS environment

Author
item BADENKO, VLADIMIR - University Of St Petersburg
item KURTENER, DMITRY - European Agrophysical Institute
item YAKUSHEV, VICTOR - University Of St Petersburg
item Torbert, Henry - Allen
item KRUEGER, ELENA - European Agrophysical Institute

Submitted to: Meeting Proceedings
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/30/2016
Publication Date: 7/4/2016
Citation: Badenko, V., Kurtener, D., Yakushev, V., Torbert III, H.A., Krueger, E. 2016. Evaluation of current state of agricultural land using problem-oriented fuzzy indicators in GIS environment. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics, July 4-7, 2016, Beijing, China.

Interpretive Summary: Current state of agricultural lands is defined under influence of processes in soil, plants and atmosphere and is described by observation data, complicated models and subjective opinion of experts. Problem-oriented indicators summarize this information in useful form for decision of the same specific problems. In this paper, three groups of problem-oriented Indicators are described. The first group is devoted to evaluate agricultural lands with winter crops. Second group of indicators oriented for evaluation of soil disturbance. The third group of indicators oriented for evaluation of the effectiveness of soil amendments. For illustration of the methodology, a small computation was made and outputs are integrated in Geographic Information System.

Technical Abstract: Current state of agricultural lands is defined under influence of processes in soil, plants and atmosphere and is described by observation data, complicated models and subjective opinion of experts. Problem-oriented indicators summarize this information in useful form for decision of the same specific problems. In this paper, three groups of problem-oriented Indicators are described. The first group is devoted to evaluate agricultural lands with winter crops. Second group of indicators oriented for evaluation of soil disturbance. The third group of indicators oriented for evaluation of the effectiveness of soil amendments. For illustration of the methodology, a small computation was made and outputs are integrated in Geographic Information System.