A GIS DATABASE CREATION AT THE LOW ALTITUDE EXPERIMENTAL
STATION OF TAIWAN ENDEMIC SPECIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Mu-Lin Wu, Professor
Civil Engineering Department, National Pingtung Polytech Institute
P. O. Box 17-164, Taichung, Taiwan 40098, R. O. C.
Tel. 886-4-2806885 Fax. 886-4-2833825
Ren-Teh Yen, Director
Chieh-Chung Yang, Associate Research Scientist
Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute
l1, Ming-Shen E. Road, Chi-Chi, Nantou County, Taiwan, R. O. C.
Tel. 886-49-761258 Fax. 886-49-764600
ABSTRACT
Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute is in charge of endemic species
research and conservation in Tarwan. The Low Altitude Experimental Station was
created in the past three years to perform on site experiments in order to pursuing
conservation of endemic species. A self-developed GIS was created accordingly.
Remote sensing and global positioning systems were also integrated with a GIS. Then,
an integrate database was created by a GIS to cover a wide variety of data such as,
meteorology, vegetation, animal, soil, geology, topography, and imagery. A GIS was
also implemented to solve management problems. Zoning of experiment sites at the
station can be performed by a GIS in a continuous basis. A GIS database creation also
can be performed in a real time on a given site. The whole process gave a new horizon
to endemic species research and conservation experiments.
experimental stations to be created at
three different elevations on Taiwan. It
is simple because that terrain in
Taiwan is steep. The Low Altitude
Experimental Station was created in
the past three years. At the very
beginning, geographic information
systems were developed as well. A
wide variety of data types
1. INTRODUCTION
Conservation and
environmental protection are now very
hot issues in Taiwan. Taiwan Endemic
Species Research Institute is in charge
of endemic species research and
conservation in Taiwan. According to
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