Building a Forestry DSS with ArcInfo 8: Issues and Opportunities Author: David J. Buckley 2000 S. College Ave. Phone: 970-490-5900
The advent of ArcInfo 8 affords many advantages in database and applications development. In particular, the migration to the Microsoft COM standard provides an extensible platform for building specific tools focused on business tasks. The requirements of a forestry decision support system based on business process modeling techniques are complex. They require an integrated spatial and tabular database architecture that accommodates the definition of business rules for geoprocessing activities such as inventory maintenance and harvest planning. ArcInfo 8 provides an integrated database model, the geodatabase, that could facilitate such requirements. However, many issues are involved in building a geodatabase that respects operational business rules for a distributed computing environment of regional offices. |