PYL.Software
From COST Action FP0804: FORSYS
Software
| Has responsible organisation | ZEF C: Department of Ecology and Natural Resources Management |
|---|---|
| Has institutional framework | other |
| Has DSS contact person | Christine Fürst |
| Has DSS contact e-mail | cfuerst@uni-bonn.de |
| Has status | used (stable and upgraded/updated recently) |
| Has accessibility | restricted access |
| Is commercial product | No |
| Has price | |
| Has deployment cost | N/A |
| Has installation requirements | None |
| Has computational limitations | None |
| Has user support organization | Some automatical features (help) are yet included, the manual is currently in development. Support is provided directly by the developers (training courses and technical support). |
| Has support team size | 7 |
| Has maintenance organization | PiSolution GmbH |
| Has input data requirements | Biophysical data, Climate data, Ecological data, Forest inventory data, Socioeconomic data, User defined |
| Has input data format | text file, net services, image data, other |
| Has data validation | error handling |
| Has output data format | graph, map, pre-defined report |
| Has internal data management | database |
| Has database | MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, other |
| Has GIS integration | other |
| Has data mining | N/A |
| Has spatial analysis | |
| Has user access control | Yes |
| Has parameterised GUI | No |
| Has GUI usability feature | Appropriate presentation, Consistency, Error handling and recovery, Flexibility, Guidance and help, User control |
| Has map interface | 2D |
| Has GUI technology | Html + Javascript, OpenGL |
| Has system type | client-server (web) |
| Has application architecture | GUI with workflow manager, Kernel with PimpEngine (constants / config), 3rd party software / object manager with Log Manager, DB Manager and PimpObject Manager. |
| Has communication architecture | TCP/IP; HTTP |
| Uses operating system | Linux/Unix, Windows |
| Uses programming language | Java, PHP, Visual Basic |
| Is scalable | Yes |
| Supports interoperability | Yes |
| Supports integration with other systems | standardized file exchange formats .shp and .txt; I/O interface by OSM-to-Pimp routine |
- has related DSS:PYL
The software is available on request as professional planning version and for environmental education purposes. Software will be provided for free within research projects where the developers ZEF / PiSolution GmbH are partners or with flexible licence fee model for other purposes.
Minimum data request are land cover / land use data. Further, DEM, soil maps, regionalized climate data, layers from regional planning (priority / preference areas, protected areas) and cadastral maps can be used. For the multicriteria evaluation, statistical data are requested.
Interfaces to growth and yield models are currently developed and tested
