Study on a Regional-planning Support System using Image Processing Technique

Research Project

Project/Area Number	02452258
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	農業土木
Research Institution	Kyoto University
Principal Investigator	KITAMURA Teitaro Professor, Fac. of Agriculture, Kyoto Univ., 農学部, 教授 (30026455)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	HARUTA Shinsuke Assistant, Fac. of Agriculture, Kyoto Univ., 農学部, 助手 (60218659) MORI Yoshiaki Lecturer, Fac. of Agriculture, Kyoto Univ., 農学部, 講師 (60026474) KOBAYASHI Shintaro Assoc. Prof., of Agriculture, Kyoto Univ., 農学部, 助教授 (20026602)
Project Period (FY)	1990 – 1991
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1991)
Budget Amount *help	¥6,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,800,000) Fiscal Year 1991: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000) Fiscal Year 1990: ¥6,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,200,000)
Keywords	Regional Planning / Regional Analysis / Image Processing / GIS / Regional Classification / Population Analysis / 土地利用計画 / 計画支援システム
Research Abstract	There have been various methodologies of regional analysis developed for their applications to regional planning. However, these techniques are designed for individual purposes and hardly related to each other. The present study is aimed at the development of a comprehensive software package called "Regional-planning Support System", which integrates certain approaches of regional analysis in various aspects toward an efficient, well-managed system of regional planning. In the study, computation programs for some of the important procedures in regional analysis, namely, regional classification, population projection, transportation and water system analysis, are developed as sub-modules of the software package. These modules are then applied to a case region in Miyagawa river basin, Mie Prefecture, and the results are examined for improving the support system toward practical uses. It is important for regional planners to arrange the outputs of various regional analysis appropriately so that the results can be properly reflected to the planning processes. In this meaning, visual expression of the analytical outputs is considered effective. Therefore the present system is constituted with stress put on graphic processing techniques. The present study has only developed some sub-systems of the Regional-planning Support System as its framework, and not yet reached the completion of the whole system. In the following studies, more efforts should be carried out to improve the System, introducing the concepts of Geographic Information System (GIS) and graphical user interfaces.