Building land unit database for supporting land use planning in Thai Binh Province by integrating ALES and GIS

Abstract

In order to ensure the effectiveness of land use planning, the information about land quality and land characteristics plays an important role. The application of information technology is one of the best solutions in the area of land use planning in which land unit database is considered firstly and seriously. The land unit database consists of spatial data and attribute data, both of which should follow the standard. The paper presents a procedure to build the land unit database, and illustrates an application of the database to land suitability classification for paddy field and crop in Thai Binh Province by comparing land unit with the requirement of each land use type according to ecology characteristic.