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Abstract
GIS Decision Support System for Animal Feeding Operations PlanningTrack: Agriculture
Author(s): Elzbieta Covington, Robin Wilson Kloot
The Earth Sciences and Resources Institute at the University of South Carolina (Esri-USC), in conjunction with the Natural Resources Conservation Service in South Carolina (NRCS-SC), began development of a GIS-based Decision Support System (DSS) for animal feeding operations (AFO) in 1998 for Pee Dee district of South Carolina. The DSS is used to site proposed AFOs according to regulatory, environmental, and microeconomic data. This paper serves as an update on the field testing and the further integration of the DSS with the NRCS Customer Services toolkit software, digitization effort, and Web-based application with ArcIMS.
Elzbieta Covington
University of South Carolina
901 Sumter St.
Columbia, SC 29208
USA
Phone: 803-777-6484
Fax: 803-777-6437
E-mail: elzbieta@Esri.Esri.sc.edu