E-generation of Smart Agriculture – Intensifying SuperGIS System Education & Training

Irrigation Sector Ling Xing Yu

        Map information of Geographic Information Systems, GIS is widely applied to a variety of fields, including the management of irrigation & drain channels, updating & improvement on water resources facilities, submission & control of work budgets, automatic monitoring & remote sensing allocation for electrically driven water gates, channel resource tracing, and assessment of IOT sensor allocation for future water quality. Instant uploading via Cloud database will further help achieve collaboration on map information and applications in all affairs.

        To cooperate on the exercise of the GIS system revision by the Irrigation Agency, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan to change from the previous ArcGIS Pro application to the SuperGIS Desktop 10.x geo-info system, this Office is appointed as a pilot agency for the education and training in SuperGIS, where the software functions are to be enhanced with the experiences of our coworkers at the work stations in taking hands-on learning courses, and assistance is to be given to the vendors in developing tools of map information search & applications.

        There are 70 coworkers of this Office who are the persons on GIS case from the Irrigation Section, the Information Office, and the work stations, participating in the training at Gjun Information Co., Changhua City in three sessions. The head of Management Section of the Irrigation Agency, M.T. Hung is highly attentive to this exercise and sent the Sub-section leader, C.C. Yang and Senior Engineer Y.Y. Li to participate on site and give counsel, expecting to promote, with the help of the learning experiences of this Office’s coworkers, to all other offices.

        Value-added applications of GIS map information can integrate the existing MIS databases whereby to achieve the objective of maps and texts as one, as well as use GIS as an interface to serve as a comprehensive and integrated map platform that allows users to have clear and broad view of the information on the affairs of different sections and offices which is displayed in a 3D manner. That is an advance toward the era of smart management of agricultural water and water distribution.