Possibilities of using spatial analysis (gis) as an input data tool for the greenhouse decision support model

Abstract

Greenhouse production system is a system that needs a good management. If on the beginning things are not clear to the producer the greenhouse system will not work properly and it would be economically and energetically unstable. Before starting the greenhouse business the farmer must have an idea what he wants, what is he capable of and what are his resources. In this paper, an improvement of a simple model as decision support model for the greenhouse production system is presented. The basic idea of the algorithm was to offer to the producer an adequate solution of the greenhouse production systems regarding the greenhouse construction type and technical systems with their capacities, based on his elementary idea. In sense of user friendly working environment, spatial analysis (GIS) was introduced as a possibility of serving as an input data tool for the model. Based on the farmer / producer location algorithm itself draws the data from the various orographic characteristics such as slope of the terrain, exposition, soil type, soil quality, underground waters and weather conditions for the specific location and thus provides to the farmer / producer necessary input data in the short period of time.