PYL.Software

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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