A decision support system for land use planning at farm enterprise level

A dynamic land use planning system is described, as a decision support system for land use planning at farm enterprise level. The system is a Geographic Information System with a powerful process model that follows the logic of the decision-making process and makes use of an integrated planning model for planning at different levels i.e. tactical and operational. The integrated model consists of a crop growth simulation model to accurately estimate the productivity of each feasible land use, a linear programming model to integrate the physical and socio-economic information and design the best suitable plan that maximizes the benefit of the system under a given set of constraints (tactical plan), and a spatial decision model to translate the tactical plan into an actual operational plan.