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WLES is a Web-based land evaluation system developed at
the Laboratory
of Soil Science, Ghent University.
Land evaluation (LE) is the assessment of land performance when used
for specific purposes, which is usually conducted by a multi-disciplinary team
that includes soil scientists, meteorologists, geographers and other
agricultural engineers. WLES encapsulates the domain knowledge of LE in a user
friendly manner and provides the LE service through its Web interface to
researchers, model builders and policy makers, whenever a quantitative
assessment of land productivity is concerned. |
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Interactive Mode
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The crop production potentials are evaluated in a
step-by-step manner with data being fed to the system interactively by the
user. The evaluation process is taking place progressively through stages of
growing period determination,
biomass calculation and
water balance simulation before the final
land production potential can be achieved. You are at ease to conduct a
partial evaluation if you only have a incomplete data set. You even can save
your intermediate results and continue at another time if you are a
registered user! |
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Batch Mode
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The whole evaluation process is taking place in an
automatic manner with a well prepared, complete data set or sets. This mode is
ideal for evaluating the land productivity of a considerably large area with
multiple climatic stations and soil profiles. As long as you have data, no
matter how large your area is, the results are just a click away! Furthermore,
you may save your evaluation and revisit it in another session. Be advised that
you need to be a registered user to run the
WLES in this mode. |
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WLES Documentation
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The WLES is built on top of the WLES Class
Library which is in turn implemented on top of the
.NET Framework. You may need to consult the documentation
if you would like to include the LE functionality programmatically into your
own application.
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