Abstract
The geospatial analyst is required to apply art, science, and technology to measure relative positions of natural and man-made features above or beneath the earth’s surface, and to present this information either graphically or numerically. The reference positions for these measurements need to be well archived and managed to effectively sustain the activities in the spatial industry. The research herein described highlights the need for an information system for the Land Surveyor’s Equipment Store. Such a system is a database management system with a user-friendly graphical interface. This paper describes one such system that has been developed for the Equipment Store of the Department of Geomatic Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. The system facilitates efficient management and location of instruments, as well as easy location of beacons together with their attribute information; it provides multimedia information about instruments in an Equipment Store. Digital camera was used capture the pictorial descriptions of the beacons. A Geographic Information System (GIS) software was employed to visualize the spatial location of beacons and to publish the various layers for the Graphical User Interface (GUI). The aesthetics of the interface was developed with user interface design tools and coded by programming. The developed Suite, powered by a reliable and fully scalable database, provides an efficient way of booking and analyzing transactions in an Equipment Store.
Highlights
Scientists around the world are addressing the need to increase access to research data [1]
A database system needs be managed with a Graphical User Interface (GUI), which is a HumanComputer Interface (HCI), that is, a way for humans to interact with computers
A questionnaire was issued to help study how records are kept at the Equipment Store; how beacons can be identified in the field; how surveyors obtain beacon information for their jobs; and how Geographic Information System (GIS) could be used to improve procedures for lending of equipment and to better manage information on beacons
Summary
Scientists around the world are addressing the need to increase access to research data [1]. The object-oriented paradigm has been applied in areas such as engineering, spatial data management, telecommunications, and various scientific domains. This is a programming paradigm using object-oriented data structures consisting of data fields and their links with various methods to design applications and computer programs [7, 8]. The conglomeration of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and database technology has led to this new kind of database These databases bring the database world and the applicationprogramming world closer together, in particular by ensuring that the database uses the same type of system as the application program. To support the idea of this research, many interesting databases associated with GIS have been developed in many parts of the world to support decision makers in their investigations [e.g. 10-13]
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