GEOAGRI: A Geospatial web-based decision support system to Farm-to-Market Road Network Plan

Geographic Information System (GIS) for Agricultural and Fisheries Machinery and Infrastructure (GEOAGRI) was developed by Caraga State University in partnership with the Department of Agriculture mainly to aid various agencies which intend to propose a farm-to-market road project. GEOAGRI provides visualization of the road and automatically cross-checks it to all existing proposed, ongoing, and completed road projects for possible duplication. The web-based GIS system requires the user to upload a shapefile or KML of the road; it then pinpoints the location based on its geometry and executes an intersection query to the existing road projects within the location. By having this mechanism, one can determine the extent of the intersection of the proposed road to the existing ones that users can also be view on the map. In addition, it can help the agency managers in deciding whether to approve or deny the project. The system also embedded other map layers such as rice production, public market, machinery, and infrastructures which is also one of the determining factors in the approval of the proposed road. Non-registered users may also view all the existing road projects and do basic map queries. The system is accessible at http://geoagri.da.gov.ph/, which is running and operational.