Applications of the Global Positioning System in the Mauritian sugar industry

Code (CO)	MSI99P3237
Author (AU)	Jhoty, I.
Title - English (ET)	Applications of the Global Positioning System in the Mauritian sugar industry
Thesis-Parent title (TH)	Lalouette, J. A., Bachraz, D. Y., and Sukurdeep, N. (eds), Proceedings of the fourth Annual Meeting of Agricultural Scientists, Boname Hall, MSIRI, Réduit, Mauritius, 21-22 October 1999.
Document Type(DT)	Book chapter
Date of publication (DP)	2001
Source (SO)	p. 1-10
Publisher (PB)	Reduit: Food and Agricultural Research Council (FARC)
Language of text (LT)	En
Abstract (AB)	The applications of the Global Positioning System (GPS) technology in the Mauritian sugar industry are reviewed. It is found to be an appropriate tool in the timely and rapid production of large scale topographic and 2m contour maps for land planning, siting of irrigation systems, deriving digital elevation models, establishing ground reference points and the collection of environmental location data for GIS. The prospects of further applications are discussed in relation to precision farming, orthoimages and positional data for utilities.
Descriptors - English (DE)	SUGAR INDUSTRY CONTOUR MAPS LAND PLANNING GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS GIS PRECISION FARMING GPS
Descriptors - Geographic (DG)	MAURITIUS
Sort Key 1(K1)	Information systems
Date record entered (DA)	1999-10-13
Language of analysis (LA)	En
Affiliation (AF)	MSIRI
Processing status (PS)	LIST
MSIRI Staff (MS)	LRD