Heureka

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Name, responsible organisation and contact person

Has full name Heureka PlanWise
Has acronym Heureka PlanWise
Has wiki contact person Tomas Lämås
Has wiki contact e-mail tomas.lamas@slu.se

Software identification

Has software Heureka.Software

Description

Has description Heureka is a system for long and medium term forestry planning and scenario analysis. It consists of
several applications: (1) StandWise for stand-level management analysis, (2) PlanWise for forest-level planning, (3) RegWise for regional scenario analysis, (4) PlanEval for multi-criteria deciion analysis to rank plans created in PlanWise and RegWise with one pr more stakeholders, and (5) Habitat Prognosis, a AcGIS-abased application for habitat suitability analysis of a given plan. The system covers the whole decision support process from data inventory to tools for selecting among plan alternatives with multi-criteria decision making techniques. The system is designed for both large-scale and small-scale forestry.

The utilities handled today are timber and bio-fuel production, carbon sequestration, biodiversity, and recreation.

Has modelling scope Economical indicators, Forest indicators, Ecological indicators, Climate change
Has temporal scale Long term (strategic), Medium term (tactical)
Has spatial context Spatial with no neighbourhood interrelations
Has spatial scale Forest level
Has objectives dimension Multiple objectives
Has related DSS Heureka RegWise
Has goods and services dimension Market wood products, Non-market services
Has decision making dimension Single decision maker
Has forest management goal multi-functional
Supports tree species Several Scandinavian
Supports silvicultural regime even-aged, uneven-aged/natural regeneration

Concrete application

Has typical use case Forest management planning on an estate (company) level, long as well as short term. Landscape level analyses, e.g., watershed level
Has user profile local communities, private legal entities (cooperatives / corporations / trusts / partnerships / condominium associations)
Has country Sweden
Has references about examples of application
Has number of users <=100
Has number of real-life applications <=100
Has utilisation in education used by students
Has research project reference Horstkotte, T., Moen, J., Lämås, T. & Helle, T. 2011. The legacy of logging. Estimating arboreal lichen occurrence in a boreal multiple-use landscape on a two century scale. PLoS ONE 6(12) e28779. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028779

Korosuo, A., Wikström, P., Öhman, K. and Eriksson, L.O. 2011. An integrated MCDA software application for forest planning: a case study in southwestern Sweden. Mathematical and Computational Forestry & Natural-Resource Sciences 3(2), 75-86.

Has tool dissemination Courses

Decision support techniques used in the DSS

Has decision support techniques Heureka.Decision support techniques

Support of Knowledge Management

Has knowledge management processes Heureka.Knowledge management process

Support of social participation

Has support for social participation Heureka.Support of social participation

DSS development

Has DSS development Heureka.Description of DSS development

Documentation

Has website http://www.slu.se/heureka
Has online demo
Has manual Yes
Has technical documentation Yes
Has reference Wikström, P., L. Edenius, Elfving, B., Eriksson, L.O., Lämås, T., Sonesson, J., Öhman, K., Wallerman, J., Waller, C., Klintebäck, F. 2011. The Heureka forestry decision support system: An overview. Mathematical and Computational Forestry & Natural-Resource Sciences. 3(2): 87-94.