3D visualization of GIS data in coconut plantation management: challenges and opportunities

Gonesh Chandra Saha,Ruzinoor Che Mat

doi:10.1088/1755-1315/169/1/012068

Gonesh Chandra Saha, Ruzinoor Che Mat

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/169/1/012068

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Abstract

The coconut (Cocos nucifera) is an essential agricultural crop which delivers oil, food, beverage, fiber, medicine with range of raw materials and widely identified as “tree of life”. The coconut grows all over the tropics but is fronting major challenges to its survival. It obviously demonstrates that coconut plantation has declined due to poor agricultural practices and farm management. The aim of this paper is to reveal the existing challenges and find opportunities of online 3D visualization of GIS data in coconut plantation management. In this study, the data collected from a field observation will be used as the source of primary data where coconut plantation took place. The results discovered from the coconut field observation about the techniques for coconut based farming that are traditional challenging manual cultivation practices and there is also lack of proper monitoring activities is the main challenges could be highlight for introducing new technologies. The findings from this study possibly will helps in identifying the suitable challenges and opportunities that could be highlight in implementing online 3D visualization of GIS data for coconut plantation management. It will also be adapted for advancing visualization technologies.

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The coconut (Cocos nucifera) universally planted in around 93 countries [1]
The results discovered from the coconut field observation about the techniques for coconut based farming that are traditional challenging manual cultivation practices and there is lack of proper monitoring activities is the main challenges could be highlight for introducing new technologies
Regarding planting and management of coconut cultivations, [4] pointed out that current day management of coconut cultivation is gone for supporting the individuals who work with little scale farmers and group of farmers through the unpredictable zone of coconut management

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The coconut (Cocos nucifera) universally planted in around 93 countries [1]. Sustaining and achieving greater profitability and productivity from coconut farming is a principal goal in helping this farming community. The perennial tropical crop coconut is the fourth essential industrialized crop after rice, rubber and oil palm in Malaysia [2]. There are about 88,093 hectares of coconut cultivation area in Malaysia with a yield of 595,097 tonnes per metric in 2014 [3]. The productivity of coconut farming may depend on various diverse factors, for example, yearly rainfall, age of the farm estate, varieties, agro ecological area, soil verity, and management systems

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