Development of Web GIS Framework for Natural Resource Management Using ERDAS Apollo 2010 Sakhare, N. Pratap 1 and Gupta, R. D. 2

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1 Development of Web GIS Framework for Natural Resource Management Using ERDAS Apollo 2010 Sakhare, N. Pratap 1 and Gupta, R. D. 2 1 Student, M. Tech.(GIS & Remote Sensing); GIS Cell; Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT), Allahabad , (India), ( pratap.mnnit@rediffmail.com) 2 Professor & Coordinator, GIS Cell; Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT), Allahabad , (India), ( gupta.rdg@gmail.com) ABSTRACT Natural resource management programmes include development of community in which each and every aspect of natural resources is conserved and managed properly to serve a public and industrial demand without affecting ecological system. Modern technologies like Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing can be integrated to develop a well organized planning procedure for natural resource management. The Web GIS provides a fast and globally reachable way to represent information about the natural resources through maps and statistics. ERDAS APOLLO 2010 has the capabilities to deals with huge amount of raster as well as vector database. The present study uses the ERDAS APOLLO 2010 capabilities for Web GIS based applications for natural resource management. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) has been created using Java Server Pages (JSP) for its customization. The present study also deals with creation of geodatabase of metallic mineral resources, forest cover, water resources, land use and land cover. This will help in extending the benefit of GIS and Web technology for minerals and other resources available in the area for preparation of the master plan and other development plans. KEYWORDS: Natural Resource, Web GIS, ERDAS APOLLO INTRODUCTION Resources are the basis for the development of any country. India, one of the largest countries in the world, is blessed with diverse and abundant resources. These resources should be used in a judicious manner because over exploitation and unscientific land-use practices will lead to environmental problems and resource depletion. Natural Resources occur naturally within environments that exist relatively undisturbed by mankind in a natural form. A natural resource is often characterized by amounts of biodiversity existent in various ecosystems. Natural resources are derived from the environment. Many of them are essential for our survival while others are used for satisfying our wants. 1

2 Natural resource management is a discipline in the management of natural resources such as land, water, soil, plants and animals, with a particular focus on how management affects the quality of life for both present and future generations. Natural resource management is interrelated with the concept of sustainable development, a principle that forms a basis for land management and environmental governance throughout the world. It specifically focuses on a scientific and technical understanding of resources and ecology and the life-supporting capacity of those resources. Due to increase in population growth, the access and use of natural resources has increased. Due to this, mapping and management of the natural resources have become a necessity utilizing modern technological tools like remote sensing and GIS. Further, GIS plays important role for management of natural resources as user can store, retrieve and model the spatial data about natural resources. It will be helpful to manage the consumption and feature exploitation of natural resources like Oil, forest, minerals and other resources also. 2.0 METALLIC MINERAL RESOURCES IN INDIA Minerals constitute the backbone of economic growth of any nation and India has been eminently endowed with this gift of nature. There are many evidences that exploration of minerals like coal, iron-ore, copper, lead, zinc is being undertaken in India from time immemorial. India has a long history of commercial coal mining covering over 200 years. Mining activities in the country, however, remained primitive in nature and modest in scale until the beginning of the current century. Thereafter, with progressive industrialization, the demand for, and hence, the production of various minerals gradually has been growing (Import Export Bank of India, 2008). Mineral resources are classified into three parts Metallic, Non-Metallic and Fuels resources. There are several metallic mineral resources occurred in India like Gold, Silver, Diamond, Copper, Bauxite, Tungsten, Manganese, Zinc, and Lead-zinc etc. In terms of bauxite India is favorable endowed with large reserves (3037 million tonnes of reserves) of Bauxite and holds the fifth place in the world. Of all non ferrous metals, aluminum production in India is large enough to meet the growing demand within the country and has surplus for export (Internet 1, 2010). India has a unique blend of large, medium and small; manual and mechanized; opencast and underground mines. Mining and quarrying activity in India holds 10.4% share in Index of Industrial Production (IIP). The IIP ( = 100) for minerals production has moved from 110 in to 170 in Total value of mineral production (excluding atomic minerals) is estimated at Rs. 99,533 crore in Fuel minerals (Rs. 68,229 crore) accounted for largest share (69%) in total mineral production in India, followed by metallic minerals (20% - Rs. 19,755 crore), non-metallic minerals, including minor minerals (11% - Rs crore). 2

3 The metallic manganese on earth is rated as the 12 th most abundant element in the lithosphere. Industrially, manganese metal is a vital component of steel and its major use is for metallurgical purpose. The 96% of global production of manganese today is from barely 7 countries viz. CIS, RSA, Brazil, Gabon, Australia, China and India in decreasing order. The global resource base is close to 12 billion tonnes including Indian reserve of about 240 million (Internet-1, 2010). World identified resources of iron ore to the end of 1991 are estimated to be over 8,00,000 Mt. tonnes. Iron ore deposits are distributed in different regions of the world under varied geological conditions and in different geological formations. The top ten countries in the world in the order of their iron resources are the Common-wealth of Independent States (erstwhile USSR), Australia, Canada, USA, Brazil, India, South Africa, China, Sweden and Venezuela. India produce 6,200 million tonnes iron up to (Source: Mineral Commodity Summaries 2003, USBM). 3.0 OBJECTIVE OF THE PRESENT WORK In the present study, a framework for Web GIS for natural resource management has been developed using ERDAS APOLLO 2010 server and Open source GIS. In particular, metallic mineral resources have been taken to develop the Web GIS database. The Iterative Waterfall model approach has been adopted. The open source GIS software used for development of natural resource management include Quantum GIS for creation of geospatial Metallic Mineral Resources database and POST GIS for storing of security aspects and non-spatial data. 4.0 METHODOLOGY ADOPTED Web GIS framework for natural resource management deals with sharing of geospatial data and non spatial data on the web GIS platform as shown in Figure 1. It shows a work flow environment adopted for natural resource management, in particular for getting the information about metallic minerals, forest and water bodies. 3

4 Natural Resource Management Creation of Geospatial Database Spatial Database Linking Non-spatial Database Development of GUI Customization of ERDAS APOLLO Server 2010 Client 1 Client 2 Client N Figure: 1. Flow Chart Showing Major Step The methodology includes creation of spatial database and non-spatial database about different mineral resources. Open source software Quantum GIS has been used. Different topographical maps as well as mining reports provided by Department of Mining Government of India have been used. It shows different metallic mineral centers, minerals ores of Gold, Iron, Tungsten, Bauxite, Zinc, Copper, Lead-Zinc etc. of India. Then ERDAS APOLLO 2010 has been integrated for imparting the geospatial web capabilities. Geospatial web capabilities have been implemented on thin client architecture (Gupta et al., 2010 and Aleshiekh et al., 2002). 5.0 ITERATIVE DEVELOPMENT MODEL The iterative waterfall model is the widely used software development model and has been used in this work.this model is simple to understand, use and is suitable only for well-understood problems. Figure 2 describe the process of development of Web GIS frame work for natural resource management (Mall, 2003). 4

5 Figure: 2. Iterative Waterfall Development Life Cycle 5.1 Feasibility Study and Requirement Analysis The main purpose of adopting a software development model for making Web GIS framework for natural resource management is to mold work in systematic manner. As per first phase a feasibility analysis was done. Next an economical feasibility is verified. In requirement analysis, requirement in terms of input data like toposheet, software, hardware etc are listed out. 5.2 Design Feasibility Study Requirements Analysis and Specifications Design Coding and Unit Testing Integration and System Testing Maintenance In this phase of implementation, output of previous feasibility study and requirement analysis has been taken as input. Figure 3 shows the interface design and working of system. The user has to first register and obtain a user id. User can access geographic information of different metallic mineral or combine information. User can also access the production charts as well as consumption information about minerals in India and some useful information about forest types and water bodies of India. In contact module, a brief and communication information is available for user for further query. Home Registration/Login View Natural Resources User Contact Apollo administrator Figure: 3.User Interface Diagram of Natural Resource Management System 5.3 Coding and Unit Testing 5

6 The coding part is done for creating a Web based Graphical User Interface (GUI) for natural resource management using Java Server Pages. The GUI has four sub modules as shown in Figure 3. Each and every module has been coded properly and unit testing carried out as per the development module. The design document and requirement documents are referred properly to follow the implementation in proper manner. 5.4 Integration and System Testing After successfully completion of above phases of development, web based GUI is connected to ERDAS APOLLO SERVER 2010 so that all the module work properly and end user can access the information about natural resources like metallic and non metallic minerals their geographic location, production, export in India. 6.0 MODEL OBSERVATIONS As described in design module, system is exactly working in successful manner. Point database is created as mentioned above in Quantum GIS. Figure 4 shows the database of major mining centers. Like this all the mineral ore are mapped in this software and shape file is created for each. Every mineral type is then imported on ERDAS APOLLO 2010 for Client-Server interface. ERDAS APOLLO 2010 provides tremendous and flexible data base security. It is the back bone of framework and provides WFS, WMS facility. User can view the information from ERDAS SERVER as shown in Figure 5 and 6 respectively. Figure 7 shows the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of natural resource management. Figure: 4. Major metallic mineral ores of India 6

7 Figure: 5. ERDAS APOLLO Interface for GUI of Natural Resource Management Figure: 6. Mineral Ores of India on ERDAS CLIENT

8 7.0 CONCLUSION Figure: 7. GUI Interface of Natural Resource Management The main aim of the present study is to develop and implement Web GIS framework for natural resources management, in particular, for mineral resource in India. The database used for the developed system is at macro level. The Web GIS framework of natural resource management is operational at MNNIT intranet level. The present work is focused at generating and publishing the metallic mineral resources, forest and water body s information on the web using ERDAS APOLLO 2010 Server. The developed framework for natural resource management will provide the basic information for delivery of metallic mineral resources information efficiently at affordable cost. This is expected to be beneficial to different mining industries, mining organizations, user community and dependable stake holders of mining related fields. It is planned to extend the above work for non metallic minerals resources so as to make this more useful for minerals industry. In future more information about forest cover, land use, soil distribution and water bodies is also planned to be added. 8

9 REFERENCES 1. Aleshiekh, AA., Helali, H. and Behroz, HA. 2002, Web GIS Technologies and Application, University of Technology, Iran. 2. Export Import Bank of India, Mumbai, Report 1, 2008, Indian Mineral Sector and its Export Potential, Quest publication, Mumbai. 3. Gupta, Y.K., Gupta, R.D. and Kumar, K., 2010, Web GIS for Planning Infrastructural Facilities at Village Level, International conference on Defining Geospatial Vision of India held from Jan , 2010 at Gurgaon, India. 4. Mall, Rajib, 2003, Fundamentals of Software Engineering, 2 nd ed., PHI Publication, Delhi. 5. Internet 1: (Mineral Exploration Cooperation Limited, India). 6. Internet 2: (Forest Survey of India). 7. Internet 3: (Geographical Survey of India). 8. Internet 4: (Mineral Commodity Summaries 2003,United Stats Bureau of Mines (USBM) ). 9. Internet 5: (ERDAS Apollo Developer User Guide). 9

10 Paper Reference No.: PN-227 Title of the paper : DEVELOPMENT OF WEB GIS FRAMEWORK FOR NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT USING ERDAS APOLLO 2010 Name of the Presenter : 1. Pratap Sakhare 2. Dr.(Prof) R.D. Gupta Author (s) Affiliation : 1. M.Tech. Final year, GIS Cell, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad ,India 2. Professor and Coordinator, GIS Cell, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad ,India. Mailing Address : Allahabad Technology, 1. GIS Cell Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, , India 2. Coordinator GIS Cell Motilal Nehru National Institute of Allahabad , India Address : 1. pratap.mnnit@rediffmail.com 2. gupta.rdg@gmail.com Telephone number (s) : Fax number (s) : Author(s) Photograph: 1. Pratap Sakhare 2. Dr. R.D. Gupta 10

11 Brief Biography (100 words): Pratap Sakhare has completed B.E. in Information Technology in I have five years of teaching Experience as Senior Lecturer in B.M.A.S Engineering college, Agra of Uttar Pradesh Technical university recently known as Gautama Buddha university. Pursuing M.Tech (Final year) in GIS and Remote Sensing in GIS Cell of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad. 11