In response to the rapid increase in water needed for people’s daily lives and industry in the Hsinchu area, the office is committed to developing irrigation technology, using remote sensing satellite communications and geographical information-related technologies to develop a water resources management system. In addition to improving operational efficiency, this also significantly enhances water supply during drought periods and flexibility in resource allocation.

The development of the system is positioned at the integration and application of irrigation technology, combining automatic reporting systems and geographical information systems as it moves in the direction of an automated water resources management system. It further integrates water rights, water use planning, water resources allocation and other water resources management services to fully support decision making.

The office’s geographical information system is widely used, including to answer queries and provide irrigation management data on as irrigation cadasters, channels, hydraulic structures, water quality monitoring points, fallow areas, elevation point distribution, section-specific cadastral maps etc. The Global Satellite Positioning System (GPS) ) is also used with synchronous satellite signals and base station broadcast channel signals to offer real-time positioning and differential operations, working with mobile devices to develop on-site navigation, positioning, staking, delimitation and engineering data maintenance applications, extending the integration and application of the system for engineering maintenance.

Currently, the office is dedicated to the development of irrigation science and technology, integrating the Automatic Measuring and Reporting System (AMTS), Geographic Information System (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS) and mobile devices. The substantive application results can be divided into three parts.

• Irrigation management Including "cadastral mounds," "hydraulic structures," "site surveys," "irrigation stop schedule," "canal systems" and other inquiries and statistical analysis.
• water resources management Including "meteorology and hydrology," "water rights," "water use trends," "irrigation plan water use," "system automatic debugging and maintenance management" etc.
• Engineering improvement and maintenance Including "finding the nearest elevation point," "longitudinal and cross-sectional drawings," "drawing construction location maps" and other result applications.

The office will move toward automating the irrigation management system, integrating water rights, planned water use and other related information, to provide webpage users with inquiry and decision-making references.

The system applies real-time differential satellite communication technology, combines geographical information systems and personal digital assistants to build a mobile geographical data verification system that is widely employed in irrigation management, water resources management and engineering maintenance.

Using an SQL Server to build a normalized relational database, through the conversion of data formats, the automatic forecasting system and the geographical information system can share databases with same attributes, facilitating database system consistency and data sharing.

The application is synchronously updated in conjunction with the geographic information file database, while the geographic information and spatial and attribute file data from the communication server are transmitted to the office and workstation database server to enable automatic and synchronous updating of data files.

At the client end, users can use the geographical information system application Network Neighborhood to utilize the real-time updated data for query, access, management and analysis.

In the future, multi-tier architecture could be used to set up an Application Server, or establish a Web Service server providing data in a safe and secure manner to facilitate the effective management and data sharing of the database system.