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Project Goal

The goal of our project was to use ArcIMS as a means for making agriculture information system data in AgTerra's AgTrac application easily accessible. It was highly desirable that the user be able to build an online map that then could be downloadable as an ArcGIS, ArcExplorer and ArcPad project.

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Business Problem Solved

In the agriculture and natural resource environments, it is highly desirable to have a tool that allows those unaquainted with GIS to have the ability to, not only view and print custom maps, but to be able to download them to desktop and GPS enabled pocket pc applications. AgTerra's Internet Map Server program works in conjunction with the company's AgTrac applications to help link tabular field data with spatial data to help direct field based activities such as crop scouting, soil sampling, and ground-truthing remote imagery.

Technology Implemented

ArcGIS, ArcIMS, ArcPad, ArcExplorer, PHP, PostgreSQL, XML.

Development Team Biography

Alan Telck, Primary Investigator- Agriculture technology expert developing agriculture information systems since 1992 and GIS systems since 1983. A certified crop consultant, Alan coordinates projects between industry representatives and AgTerra's programmers. An executive at AgTerra Technologies, Alan's education is in Natural Resources Management from Colorado State University.

Joe Campbell, Senior Software Engineer. With a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wyoming, Joe developed the pocket pc applications and the agriculture information system (AgTrac) that serves as the foundation in this project.

Joe Pohl, Computer Specialist. While obtaining his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wyoming, Joe is instrumental in developing ans supporting the code working with the ArcIMS application.