A COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING OPTIMAL TREE-LINING IN PLANTING AREAS

Ismadi Md Badarudin, Abu Bakar Md Sultan, Md Nasir Sulaiman, Ali Mamat, Mahmud Tengku Muda Mohamed

Abstract: A computerized system for the selection of planting lining directions is to optimize tree planting areas. Therefore, this paper focuses on some issues of lining and the development strategies of system. Lining direction handle 600 from the baseline is a common practice; however various areas coordinates, analyzing other lining directions (10 – 900 ) may promote better the number of trees. The highest tree number by optimal lining direction indicates the area is fully utilized. However, to analyze all possible directions, by manual approach consume large time and effort leads to unanswered decision of optimal result determination. Thus an application named Tree-Lining Planning by Computerized System (LP-CS) does offer opportunities to determine tree numbers for the directions. The datasets by various coordinates represents areas were generated for the purposes of analysis. The generated results show that different lining angles promote better number of trees than 600 lining direction. This indicates other directions might have tendency to be best lining direction because of variations in the area’s coordinates.

Keywords: Tree-lining, Oil palm, optimization, Line-length representation, Integer programming

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0411001