FORFUN

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Name, responsible organisation and contact person

Has full name Computerized tool for ranking forest functions at stand scale
Has acronym FORFUN
Has wiki contact person Antonio Floris
Has wiki contact e-mail antonio.floris@entecra.it

Software identification

Has software FORFUN.Software

Description

Has description FORFUN (FORest FUNctions) is a computerized tool designed to assign a score to the functions of the forest in a given forest compartment, ranking them in order of importance. To this end a multicriteria algorithm is employed using two criteria: site suitability and stand aptitude for the given functions. For each criterion and for each function a group of indicators represented as GIS layers was chosen. The two criteria can be attributed roughly the same weight as assessed by the planner. The result can be corrected with a coefficient expressing the relative importance assigned to each function by the stakeholders through questionnaires whose outcome are processed by a Saaty matrix.
Has modelling scope user defined
Has temporal scale Long term (strategic), Medium term (tactical)
Has spatial context Spatial with no neighbourhood interrelations
Has spatial scale Stand level
Has objectives dimension Multiple objectives
Has related DSS
Has goods and services dimension Market wood products, Non-market services
Has decision making dimension More than one decision maker/stakeholder
Has forest management goal multi-functional
Supports tree species
Supports silvicultural regime user defined

Concrete application

Has typical use case Up to hundreds of forest compartements of a single management or landscape scale forest plan
Has user profile public land managers (i.e. state-owned / federal / cantonal / communal forests)
Has country Italy
Has references about examples of application L. Portoghesi, A. Alivernini, Cimini D.,R. Bertani, M. Marchetti, P. Corona - FORFUN: a computerized tool to create a ranking of relative importance for forest functions at stand scale. (in press)
Has number of users <=3
Has number of real-life applications <=3
Has utilisation in education presentation/demo
Has research project reference
Has tool dissemination

Decision support techniques used in the DSS

Has decision support techniques FORFUN.Decision support techniques

Support of Knowledge Management

Has knowledge management processes FORFUN.Knowledge management process

Support of social participation

Has support for social participation FORFUN.Support of social participation

DSS development

Has DSS development FORFUN.Description of DSS development

Documentation

Has website
Has online demo
Has manual No
Has technical documentation No
Has reference