Geographic Information System for Survey of Tree Species for Silk Dyeing in Surin Province DOI:

Abstract

This research seeks to create a geographic information system for surveying naturally colored plant species in Surin Province utilizing a no-code application, and to evaluate the system's efficiency as a framework for developing a geographic information system to assess the density and coordinates of these plant species in the community, following the 7-step Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology.   The development platform is Appsheets, and the database is Google Sheet.  There are 3 groups of samples:  1) The group of data providers and inspectors of the accuracy of plant species data, including local wisdom, weavers, and academic experts, 3 persons, by purposive sampling; 2) The group of system efficiency assessors, including community representatives, academics from higher education institutions, 5 persons, by purposive sampling; and 3) The group of 30 users,  including 10 students and 20 community leaders, by simple random sampling.  In addition, the research instruments consisted of an interview form, an efficiency assessment form, and a satisfaction assessment form, which had a reliability of 0.85.  Furthermore, the data were examined employing descriptive statistics, including mean and standard deviation.  The results of the study found that the community was able to record natural color plant species data, identify locations, photographs, parts of color plants, obtained colors, extraction methods, and fabric dyeing.  The data collector functionalities within the system allow for the addition, deletion, modification, searching, and reporting of data in real time.   From the evaluation of the system efficiency from experts and the average satisfaction of users in the overall level is very good with an average of 4.55 and 4.75 respectively. In conclusion, this geographic information system can be applied to manage the database of natural color plants, which is very necessary for the natural color silk weaving community because at present, such resources are greatly reduced. Therefore, this research is very useful in displaying the database of natural color plants that still exist in the community. The dashboard reporting the density of natural color plants is information that helps in decision-making so that the community can use it to plan to promote replanting and conserve them to remain in the community.