LOADSS: A GIS-based decision support system for regional environmental planning

LOADSS (Lake Okeechobee Agricultural Decision Support System) was developed to help address problems created by phosphorus runoff into Lake Okeechobee. It was designed to allow regional planners to alter land uses and management practices in the Lake Okeechobee basin and then view the environmental...

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Published in:Ecological engineering 1995-11, Vol.5 (2), p.391-404
Main Authors: Negahban, Babak, Fonyo, Carolyn, Boggess, William G., Jones, James W., Campbell, Kenneth L., Kiker, Gregory, Flaig, E., Lal, H.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Decision support systems
Environmental planning
GIs
Regional planning
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Summary:LOADSS (Lake Okeechobee Agricultural Decision Support System) was developed to help address problems created by phosphorus runoff into Lake Okeechobee. It was designed to allow regional planners to alter land uses and management practices in the Lake Okeechobee basin and then view the environmental and economic effects resulting from the changes. The Lake Okeechobee basin coverage incorporates information about land uses, soil associations, weather regions, management practices, hydrologic features and political boundaries for approximately 0.6 million ha of land and consists of close to 7000 polygons. The system has the capability to generate reports and maps concerning regional land attributes, call external hydrologic simulation models as well as display historical water quality and quantity sampling station data. LOADSS runs on SUN SPARC stations using the ARC/INFO GIS software and requires 80 mb of hard disk storage.
ISSN:0925-8574
1872-6992
DOI:10.1016/0925-8574(95)00034-8