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Name, responsible organisation and contact person

Has full name GISCAME (former: Pimp your landscape - PYL)
Has acronym GISCAME
Has wiki contact person Christine Fürst
Has wiki contact e-mail cfuerst@uni-bonn.de

Software identification

Has software PYL.Software

Description

Has description The application area of GISCAME is to assess the impact of land cover and land use change scenarios on planning objectives, which can be expressed by ecosystem services or other, to a higher or lower degree aggregated target figures, such as land use functions or sustainability criteria. As a result, alternative land-use scenarios can be visualized and the platform provides a visual feed-back on their impact on the balance of the selected target figures. Currently, the system is applicable for regions up to 10,000 km², which can be divided into so called “working windows” (standard: 100 km²; other dimensions can be defined individually) to support the visualization of land-use pattern and infrastructural details at mesoscale.

Considering the technical background, GISCAME is a combination of a cellular automaton technology with GIS features and a multicriteria assessment framework for which standardized routines are available in the graphical user interface.

Has modelling scope Economical indicators, Ecological indicators
Has temporal scale Long term (strategic)
Has spatial context Spatial with neighbourhood interrelations
Has spatial scale Regional/national level
Has objectives dimension Multiple objectives
Has related DSS
Has goods and services dimension Market non-wood products, Market services, Market wood products, Non-market services
Has decision making dimension More than one decision maker/stakeholder
Has forest management goal biodiversity evaluation, biomass estimation, carbon sequestration, climate change impact, conservation, ecological classification, economic evaluation, landscape quality, non-wood production, soil erosion, water quality, wildlife habitat, wood supply planning, multi-functional, user defined
Supports tree species oriented on forest types, not for specific species
Supports silvicultural regime user defined

Concrete application

Has typical use case Assessment of alternative land use options in the course of regional (development) planning (spatial planning).
Has user profile other
Has country Germany
Has references about examples of application
Has number of users >100
Has number of real-life applications <=30
Has utilisation in education used by students
Has research project reference (3) Fürst, C., Frank, S., Witt, A., Koschke, L., Makeschin, F. (acc.): Multi-criteria assessment of the effects of integrated land-use strategies on the provision of Ecosystem Services on regional scale, Journal of Environmental Management, Elsevier, SI RegioResources 21. (9) Fürst, C., Lorz, C., Makeschin, F. (2011): Integrating land management aspects into an assess-ment of the impact of land cover changes on Ecosystem Services, International Journal of Biodi-versity Science, Ecosystem Service
Has tool dissemination see: http://www.giscame.com/giscame/index.html and www.letsmap.de (environmental education version, for free)

Decision support techniques used in the DSS

Has decision support techniques PYL.Decision support techniques

Support of Knowledge Management

Has knowledge management processes PYL.Knowledge management process

Support of social participation

Has support for social participation PYL.Support of social participation

DSS development

Has DSS development PYL.Description of DSS development

Documentation

Has website http://www.giscame.com/giscame/index.html
Has online demo
Has manual No
Has technical documentation Yes
Has reference Fürst, C., Frank, S., Witt, A., Koschke, L., Makeschin, F. (acc.): Multi-criteria assessment of the effects of integrated land-use strategies on the provision of Ecosystem Services on regional scale, Journal of Environmental Management, Elsevier, SI RegioResources 21.

Frank, S., Fürst, C., Koschke, L., Makeschin, F. (2011): Towards the transfer of the ecosystem service concept to landscape planning using landscape metrics. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.04.027, Ecological Indicators Fürst, C., Lorz, C., Makeschin, F. (2011): Integrating land management aspects into an assess-ment of the impact of land cover changes on Ecosystem Services, International Journal of Biodi-versity Science, Ecosystem Services Management. 7(3), 168-181. DOI:10.1080/21513732.2011.611119 Koschke, L., Fürst, C., Frank, S., Makeschin, F (2012): A multi-criteria approach for an inte-grated land-cover-based assessment of ecosystem services provision for planning support. Ecological Indicators 21, 54-66. Fürst, C., Pietzsch, K., Frank, S., Witt, A., Koschke, L., Makeschin, F. (2012): How to better consider sectoral planning information in regional planning - example afforestation and conversion. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 2012, 1-29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2011.630067

References can be sent on request, please contact: cfuerst@uni-bonn.de.