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Description
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ForestGALES allows the analysis of wind climate effects on the stability of a conifer forest. The tool can be used to assess risk over time via predicted growth from yield tables or alternatively current risk from mensuration data (top height and dbh).
Recently adapted as part of Stormrisk project to allow model to run in partner countries.
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| Has modelling scope
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Forest indicators
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| Has temporal scale
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Long term (strategic), Medium term (tactical), Short term (operational)
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| Has spatial context
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Spatial with no neighbourhood interrelations
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| Has spatial scale
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Forest level, Regional/national level, Stand level
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| Has objectives dimension
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Single objective
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| Has related DSS
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| Has goods and services dimension
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Non-market services
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| Has decision making dimension
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Single decision maker
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| Has forest management goal
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storm behaviour, wind hazard
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| Supports tree species
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Sitka Spruce, Norway Spruce, Douglas Fir, Scots Pine, Corsican Pine, Lodgepole Pine, Western Red Cedar, Western Hemlock, Noble Fir, Grand Fir, Japanese Larch, Hybrid Larch, European Larch
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| Supports silvicultural regime
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even-aged
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Concrete application
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| Has user profile
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forest owners associations, national forest administration, NGO, service providers, private legal entities (cooperatives / corporations / trusts / partnerships / condominium associations), public land managers (i.e. state-owned / federal / cantonal / communal forests)
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| Has country
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United Kingdom
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| Has references about examples of application
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| Has number of users
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>100
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| Has number of real-life applications
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>100
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| Has utilisation in education
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used by students
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| Has research project reference
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| Has tool dissemination
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Decision support techniques used in the DSS
Support of Knowledge Management
Support of social participation
DSS development
Documentation
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| Has online demo
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https://www.eforestry.gov.uk/forestdss
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| Has manual
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Yes
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| Has technical documentation
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No
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| Has reference
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* ForestGALES website
- Forest Research Decision Support Portal (note registration required)
- GARDINER B., J SUÁREZ, A. ACHIM, S. HALE et B. NICOLL (2006): ForestGALES. A PC-based wind risk model for British Forests. User’s Guide. Version 2.1. Forestry Commission. (available on-line in pdf)
- REYNOLDS K.M., TWERY M., LEXER M.J., VACIK H., RAY D., SHAO G,. et BORGES J.G.: Decision Support Systems in Forest Management IN BURSTEIN F. et HOLSAPPLE C. W. (EDS.) (2008): Handbook on Decision Support Systems 2: Variations. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 800 pp.
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This is a probability-based model that has been delivered as a DSS. It evaluates the wind hazard of a conifer stand plantation, based on some of the stand feature, like soil, cultivation, drainage, location, or metric measures (top height, average dbh) of the existing species. It provides information as the return period for that damage to occur, risk status and critical wind speed for both overturning and stem breakage risk. It allows to quantify the wind hazard existing in actual stands or, with the help of growth prediction models or yield tables, the future risk of wind damage assumed by current decisions on the establishment of new plantations, drainage improvements, thinning options, clear-cutting impact, rotation periods or the creation of retentions.
ForestGALES can be used to calculate the risk for a particular stand in the single stand mode, or in the batch or multiple stand mode, for a number of stands one after another. Within these two modes there are three ways of making predictions: using field measurements, using stand characteristics provided by a yield model, or making predictions through time, calculating the risk of damage over a typical rotation from stand characteristics contained in yield models.
