The Ministry of Agriculture of the Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany
operates the online portal FIONA. The portal provides authenticated and secured
access to 80.000 farmers who can measure, digitize and calculate their farmland areas
to apply for subsidy grants.

The Project is implemented with Open Source technologies - PostgreSQL/PostGIS,
GeoServer, UMN MapServer and Mapbender. 

PostgreSQL/PostGIS handles more than 8.5 million farmland parcels. Read and write
access to geographic features are provided by GeoServer as OGC WFS.  The imagery
served by MapServer WMS is overlayed with features served
by GeoServer WFS. The Mapbender portal manages user access and orchestrates the OGC
services.

The Ministry of Agriculture of the Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany
operates the online portal FIONA. The portal provides authenticated and secured
access to 80.000 farmers who can measure, digitize and calculate their farmland areas
to apply for subsidy grants. The cadastral basemap comprises 8.5 million land parcels
additional data sets comprise a topographical basemap as scanned raster data and
vectorial infrastructure network (highways, railroads, roads, places, geographical
names database), etc.

The FIONA Project is implemented with Open Source technologies. PostgreSQL/PostGIS
handles more than 8.5 million farmland parcels.

Read and write access to geographic features (farmland parcels, landscape components)
are provided by GeoServer. GeoServer is used as OGC WFS.

Both GeoServer and UMN MapServer access the same database PostgreSQL /
PostGIS. Load distribution is implemented for the WMS services only. The WMS has to
handle approximately 10 times more requests than the GeoServer.

The Mapbender portal manages user access and orchestrates the OGC services GeoServer
and MapServer. The imagery served by MapServer WMS is overlayed with features served
by GeoServer WFS.

This presentation shall give an overview on FIONA and the cooperation of the
different components and a live demo will be provided.

You can get an overview about the project:
http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/FIONA_-_Online_Agricultural_Subsidy_Application_System