GIS and Regional Economic Development Planning

摘要

Regional economic development becomes a common cognition among all levels of government. To obtain a rapid, healthy growth of regional economy, various technologies are introduced into. GIS technology is one of those and is now being applied to the process of economic development at local, regional and state levels. Decision-makers recognize that GIS technology is an interactive visualization and decision-support tool to directly support economic planning. In this article, authors make a preliminary study on how to develop a Spatial Decision Support System(SDSS) to promote regional economic development planning.