Research of Construction of Australia Agriculture Information System
This article studies the current construction situation of Australia agriculture information system, it first makes an overview of Australia agriculture and development of its information technology, then, studies the characteristics of Australia agricult
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Research of Construction of Australia Agriculture Information System Xiaochan Hu, Huijian Zhang, Wei Luo, and Xiongjun Mai
Abstract This article studies the current construction situation of Australia agriculture information system, it first makes an overview of Australia agriculture and development of its information technology, then, studies the characteristics of Australia agriculture information system from the building of information networks and application of information technology. The study shows that Australia has constructed a complete and standardized agriculture information system. Keywords Australia • Agriculture information system • Information networks • Information technology
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Introduction
Australia is one of major producers and exporters of food, livestock and natural fibers in the world, Australian agriculture is based on farming and animal husbandry. Currently, the Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) and its affiliated institutions are the main body to Formulate and implement policies and programs of Agricultural information technology To ensure that Australian agriculture, fisheries, food and forestry industries remain competitive, profitable and sustainable (DAFF 2013). Many technologies have been used in research of agriculture, resources, environment and disaster in Australia, such as Systems engineering, database and information systems, expert systems, decision support systems, remote sensing (RS), geographic information system (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, etc (The revelation of Agricultural X. Hu • H. Zhang (*) • W. Luo • X. Mai Institute of Scientific and Technology Information, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS), Haikou, China Key Laboratory of Practical Research on Tropical Crops Information Technology in Hainan, Danzhou, China e-mail: [email protected] S. Xu (ed.), Proceedings of Selected Articles of 2013 World Agricultural Outlook Conference, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-54356-2_13, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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Information Development of the tropical countries 2013). In addition, computer, internet and electronic technology and other technologies are widely used in Australia, Australia Per capita computer ownership ranked sixth in the world and ranked first in the Asia-Pacific region. Australia per capita Internet access ranked ninth in the world and ranked second in the Asia-Pacific region; since Australia has high-quality culture Farmers, good network infrastructure and many sharing sites in the country, its has rapidly developed agricultural information with a high level (Overview of Australian Agriculture and Agri-Information Technology 2013).
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Building of Information Networks
Australia is more successful in agricultural information resources sharing, it has many national sharing sites, such as ChemCert, Animal Health Australia. ChemCert is a non-profit industry training organization established in 1999 as the peak body for the training, up-skilling and indus
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