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Web application I-FARM with GIS tool. Ed van Ouwerkerk Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Iowa State University. Briefly I-FARM development 2002 - 2008 I-FARM system and application I-FARM input and simulation results Review project websites On-line I-FARM/GIS demo
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Web application I-FARM with GIS tool Ed van Ouwerkerk Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Iowa State University • Briefly • I-FARM development 2002 - 2008 • I-FARM system and application • I-FARM input and simulation results • Review project websites • On-line I-FARM/GIS demo • If time allows • Preliminary Iowa biomass scenario study with I-FARM: • a farm scale analysis I-FARM For Iowa State University Department of Community and Regional Planning, CRP 595 Seminar in GIS Applications and Research. Design 526, Monday September 26, 2005, 12:10-1:00 pm. See http://www.public.iastate.edu/~xifang/
I-FARM development 2002-2008 • 2002 through 2004USDA grant for project “Re-Integration of Crop and Livestock Enterprises in Three Northern States” • Main participants: • The University of Maine • Iowa State University • Michigan State University • Principal investigators in Iowa: • Matt Liebman, Agronomy, ISU • Tom Richard, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, ISU • project team with 10 other scientists • Model developer: Ed van Ouwerkerk, former research associate Wageningen University, Netherlands • Start I-FARM development in October 2002 I-FARM
I-FARM development 2002-2008 • 2005 through 2007USDA-DOE grant for project “Integrated Feedstock Supply Systems for Corn Stover Biomass” • Main participants: • Iowa State University • Penn State University • The University of Wisconsin Madison • World Resources Institute, Washington D.C. • Principal investigators: • Tom Richard, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Penn State University • Rob Anex, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, ISU, • currently on sabbatical leave in Switzerland • - Kevin Shinners, University of Wisconsin • - Suzie Greenhalgh, economist WRI • Model developer: Ed van Ouwerkerk, ISU I-FARM
I-FARM development 2002-2008 • 2005 through 2008NSF grant for project “Biocomplexity in the Bioeconomy: The Natural and Industrial Ecology of Biobased Products”.Main focus: lignocellulosic conversion of switch grass for bio-ethanol • Main participants: • Iowa State University • Penn State University • Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire • World Resources Institute, Washington D.C. • Principal investigators: • Rob Anex, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, ISU, • Tom Richard, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Penn State • - Lee Lynd, Dartmouth College • - Suzie Greenhalgh, economist WRI • Main model developer: Ed van Ouwerkerk, ISU • Temporary GIS and .NET programmer: Amritpal Kang, ISU graduate student I-FARM
I-FARM system and application • System • 2 Windows 2000 Server machines, each having 1 GB memory RAM • Internet Information Server 5 web server, URL http://i-farmtools.org • Microsoft .NET Framework • ArcGIS Engine 9.1 & ArcGIS Server 9.1 • SQL Server 2000 database, no data files • I-FARM connections for 20 users simultaneously • Application • Main application written in ASP VBScript • GIS tool for Iowa written in C# ASP.NET (Visual Studio .NET 2003) • and ArcGIS Desktop 9.1 • Integrated USDA ARS/NRCS models: • RUSLE soil erosion model • SCI soil conditioning index (soil carbon sequestration) • Integrated databases: • Weather database, extracted from WEPP erosion project • ISPAID 7 soil database for the state of Iowa • SOILS5 soil database for other states • Crop yields from 2002 Census of Agriculture and ORNL • On-line connection with Iowa Geographic Image Map Server I-FARM
I-FARM input and simulation results • Input • 19 US northern states covered • Per farm max. 6 livestock herds and 8 fields • Livestock and manure: beef cattle, dairy, swine • Crops, crop rotations and field management for: corn (for grain and for • silage), soybeans, oats, wheat, alfalfa, grasses for forage and grazing, • switch grass • Commercial fertilizers and manure spreading plans • Biomass handling & storage (under development) • Investments in land, machines, and buildings; bank loans I-FARM • Simulation Results • Livestock imports and exports at farm level • Crops, forages, biomass balance at farm level • Nutrient balance and leaching/runoff potential (N-P-K) and aerial • emissions at field level • Soil erosion and soil carbon balance at field level • Energy consumption for traction • Labor requirement at farm level • Government payments • Economic evaluation at enterprise level
Activate Zoom In tool Zoom Into County level I-FARM
Major highways, railroads, and streams become visible Zoom In to township level I-FARM
Streets and geographic images become visible Zoom in to section or farm level I-FARM
Activate polygon tool and draw polygons around fields Field properties become available for automatictransfer to I-FARM input I-FARM