Week No.

07 and 08 Decision Support System and Land Information System

Lecture No. L-20, L-21 and L-22 ARC425 : Principles of Planning

Introduction to DSS 1

Types of DSS 2

Why Decision Support System? 3

Introduction to Cadastre 4

Introduction to Land Information System 5

Week No. 07 and 08 Introductio
Lecture No. L-20, L-21 and L-22
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Decision Support System-
▪ A Decision Support System (DSS) is an interactive computer-based system or
subsystem intended to help decision makers use communications technologies, data,
documents, knowledge and/or models to identify and solve problems, complete 1
decision process tasks, and make decisions.
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▪ Decision Support System is a general term for any computer application that enhances
a person or group’s ability to make decisions.
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▪ Also, Decision Support Systems refers to an academic field of research that involves
designing and studying Decision Support Systems in their context of use. 4

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Week No. 07 and 08 Introductio
Lecture No. L-20, L-21 and L-22
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Decision Support System-
▪ A decision support system may present information graphically and may include an
expert system or artificial intelligence (AI).
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▪ It may be aimed at business executives or some other group of knowledge workers.
▪ Typical information that a decision support application might gather and present would
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(a)be,
Accessing all information assets, including legacy and relational data sources; 3
(b) Comparative data figures;
(c) Projected figures based on new data or assumptions; 4
(d) Consequences of different decision alternatives, given past experience in a specific
context.
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Week No. 07 and 08 Introduction to Land Information System
Lecture No. L-20, L-21 and L-22
Land Information System
▪ Means to acquire, manage, retrieve, analyse, display land records.
▪ LIS as component of GIS or vice-versa... a long-standing debate, mostly a matter of
semantics and disciplinary orientation. 1
▪ Typical LIS:
▪ cadastre as a primary component 2
▪ maintained by unit of government responsible for tracking land ownership,
control; typically county government in US 3
▪ parcel-oriented
▪ hard copy maps and/or CAD or GIS software for spatial representations 4
▪ relatively large (cartographic) scale (e.g., 1:4800 in rural areas, 1:1200 in
developed areas) 5
Week No. 07 and 08 Introduction to Land Information System
Lecture No. L-20, L-21 and L-22
▪ bridge between legal (e.g., deeds) and technical (e.g., maps, GIS coordinates) land
descriptions
▪ may incorporate other technologies
▪ parcel indexing systems (relational data base management systems) 1
▪ fiche and document imaging systems
▪ Surveying 2
Constraints-
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Data stored in traditional cadastral systems do not meet requirements connected with
supervision, management, decision-making, forecasting and development planning. The
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most significant problems are:
• low precision of geometric data • difference between the map and the
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register
• lack of supervisory tools • quality and speed of data access