Reaching Farmland Managers

摘要

The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery is responsible, among other things, for disaster reduction in rural areas. Forecasting of an oncoming disaster requires insight into abnormal meteorological conditions, deviation in water levels in rivers and channels, and many other clues and prognostics. Meteorological services, remote-sensing institutions, water boards and land-development bodies all collect diverse datasets and store them in databases. All of these are accessible to various categories of users through the internet, but their effective application requires insight on the part of farmers, irrigation managers, water boards and other users regarding where to find what type of information. One solution to the establishment of a geo-data spatial infrastructure for sharing information suited for disaster management of farmland is the employment of the Geo-web based on ISO TC211 standards 19118 and 19128 or OGC standards.