Background In 2015, the Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China began to organize the exemplary work:Air-ground Integration of Supervision in production and construction projects. It demands each basin institution and each province to choose a county that contains various forms of ground disturbance to carry out the exemplary work. In order to support the exemplary work on the supervision and management of soil and water conservation in production and construction projects with the aid of data-collecting hardware device and information processing and analysis software, the Water and Soil Conservation Monitoring Center of the Ministry of Water Resources led to develop "the Supervision and Management System for Soil and Water Conservation in Production and Construction Projects Based on High Resolution Remote Sensing Images and Cloud Data Management".
Methods The above system was developed based on the new developments of modern space technology, surveying and mapping, information technology, in combination with the new demands in the supervision and inspection of soil and water conservation. First we completely analyzed the relevant data and management requirements, and then built the system via innovations on tailored design for supervision and management work, integration of hardware and software, and application.
Results The system may offer a series of services including management of basic data on the supervision and inspection of soil and water conservation, collection and analysis of supervision and inspection information, compliance recognition and early warning of production and construction activities, positioning of spatial data, one-click upload and download of data, information distribution and sharing. More than 2 years' test and promotion showed that this system strengthened the streamlining and standardization of indoor and outdoor supervision and management of soil and water conservation of production and construction projects. It supports instant compliance analysis of production and construction activities from spatial and temporal, quality and quantity dimensions. Also, it enables the dynamic management and historical analysis of supervision and inspection. As a result, this system provides strong technical foundation for the network interaction and interactive visualization of soil and water conservation of production and construction projects. It does a solid job in further contribution to the efficacy of supervision and inspection of soil and water conservation, promoting the owners of production and construction projects to actively implement the soil and water conservation programs.
Conclusions This system has fine openness and compatibility, can embed peripheral hardware and accept all kinds of spatial data and multimedia data, customized business support components, and has the ability to publish GP services. It can be used as references in the fields of comprehensive management of soil and water conservation, project management, production and construction, project evaluation, acceptance, monitoring and supervision and other related fields.