Historical Agro-Environmental Browsing System (HABS) Nobusuke IWASAKI 1) 3), David S. SPRAGUE1) and Ikuhiro TERAMOTO2) 1) National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences 2) National Agriculture and Food Research Organization 3) OSGeo Foundation Japan Chapter
Historical Agro- Environmental Browsing System (HABS) – Large area georeferencing of RSM – Development of WebGIS using FOSS4G • Improvement of HABS – Data quality and License – Grid data • Conclusion 2 Agenda
(1880 – 1886) – It means name of survey method (迅速測 圖法) and maps surveyed based on the method • Surveyed by regional division of Japanese Army. – Covered most of Kanto Plain • 1/20,000, 900 maps • Important material to analyses traditional land use 4 About Rapid Survey Maps (RSM)
land use categories • Scenery image – it makes possible to reconstruct landscape • Few and expensive – 160 sets printed – About $ 10,000 5 About Rapid Survey Maps (RSM)
of land use change – Digitizing road and land use border – Assign land use properties to each polygon • Needs effort – for input one map, one person and month – difficult vectorize of large area • Some information lost – such as contour, color and characters 6 About Rapid Survey Maps (RSM)
RMS – as raster data format • Georeferencing methds for the RMS – Constructing WebGIS using FOSS4G • Improve WebGIS – Data accuracy and resolution – Additional contents – Developing GRID data 7 About Rapid Survey Maps (RSM)
4 geographical control points both present and old maps – It may be difficult to apply RMS • Difficult to find geographical control points in each map. • Drastic land use change from Meiji Era to present – In addition, it would be very long and intensive work to carry out this method for all 900 RSM 9 Development of HABS
Development of HABS Request Data Request Data Request Data Request Data Request Data Request Data Rendering Request Data Rendering Sending Data Sending Data Sending Data Sending Data Sending Data Sending Data Sending Data Render data for display Render data for display GDAL2Tiles GIS Data GIS client with WMS
– The source code is made available under a license that allows the modification, and re- distribution of the software. – Of course, free charge 14 Development of HABS http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
Agro-Environmental Browsing System was released Apr. 21, 2008 – http://habs.dc.affrc.go.jp/index_e.html • Now, stoped • Search “HABS” • Two interface – Web Browser – Google Earth
liner feature, such as paddy field – caused by input method 25 Improvement of HABS and father works Area(%) Point Grid Polygon Paddy 14.17 14.43 13.56 Upland field 18.39 18.80 19.11 Tea, orchard 0.14 0.14 0.00 Wood 40.11 40.91 40.24 Grass 18.64 18.77 18.48 Village, road 2.80 2.95 2.59 Marsh 0.77 0.79 1.02 Water 4.99 5.39 5.00 Total 100.00 100.00 100.00 Land use ratio (point, grid) Land use ratio (polygon) point grid
easy to disseminate the RMS • Additional contents and High resolution data are also available. • Adopt an open license – not only for academy, but also public, include commercial use • Now, developing GRID data – quantitative analysis of land use change 26 Conclusion