Project Data and Information Management: Moldova Soil Conservation Project

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Moldova Soil Conservation Project

Forest enterprise is the unit of the State Forest Agency, Moldsilva. There are 23 forest enterprises under management of Moldsilva. Forest Enterprise is responsible for regeneration, protection and management of AR project area.

Data and information flow

Forest Enterprise

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Project Implementation Unit (PIU) under the ICAS*

1 – Reports of primary information on project sites located in the forest enterprise2 – Skills and equipment Forest Engineer equipped with GPS, digital camera and relevant knowledge 3 – Filed data: a) GPS coordinates b) digital photographs c) Report on field activities

* ICAS – Forest Research and Management Institute

GPS Digital Photo Camera

Report on afforestation and reforestation sites from forest enterprises

List of sites received form enterprises are processed in MS Excel, and adapted to a database, and MS Excel reports are created and extracted using the function pivot table.

Data on sites

• Data on polygon and discrete sites• GPS to collect site coordinates• Field checks of GPS site data• Post-stratification based on site coordinates• Transfer of site data to project database

Data transfer from GPS to Map Source

Data processing in MapSource

222 – 231 – points with geographic coordinates represented as per the engineer’s report to facilitate identification of the sites.

Prelucrarea datelor in MapSource

Each polygon is represented with its unique ID, and has an object on the map (red ellipse on the image).Polygon ID serves as a link to the rest of the database.

Data export from MapSource

Microsoft Excel

MapInfo AutoCAD

Data export from MapSource in MapInfo

• Moldova’s map with layers of relief, settlement, vegetation, hydrological network etc. is prepared in the MapInfo. • The layer with MSCP sites is imported from MapSource into MapInfo

Data export from MapSource to MS Excel

Export from MapSource to Excel to archive the data

Data export from MapSource to AutoCAD

Export from MapSource to AutoCAD for representing with other overlapping layers

Transfer of photos from digital camera

Transfer of digital photos to the desktop and representing the photos with the ID of the polygon

Data base of MSCP

MapData

Photos

MapInfoMicrosoft Excel

Data base of MSCPMapInfo

Data base of MSCPMapInfo

ISS Ungheni

Data base of MSCPPhotos

Data base of MSCPPhotos