UC Davis Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program Third Quarter
UC Davis Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program, Horticulture, Research, Business, Darcy Boellstorff
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Some of the first GIS analyses done were for village locations using a location-allocation approach. We often consider location to be the most important factor in a successful organization. Given that villages provide a set of demand points for the need for transportation (of agricultural goods), farm inputs, processing, etc., the goal of using a method of analyses to determine best allocation is to locate new facilities that can supply the demand points. In this case, demand points being villages. ArcGIS provides a tool “location-allocation” that simultaneously addresses the two-fold problem of locating facilities and allocating demand points (villages) to those facilities.

