The use of UML to design agricultural data warehouses

Abstract

Recent research works propose to use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to design datawarehouses. First, the paper overviews these recent UML-based techniques. We show that UML can help system designers to build a data warehouse model. This type of model aims to describe the different analysis dimensions of the data. Second, we will also present different UML-based tools used during a project of agricultural data warehouse. The paper will introduce this data warehouse developed in France. Its goal is to allow analyzing spatially the use of pesticide in agriculture.