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General System description
System Name: Woodstock, Spatial Woodstock & Stanley
Brief overview
A commercial (COTS) software suite for developing and analysing detailed, long-term spatial forest management plans.
Contents
Scope of the system
Woodstock is the flagship of a suite of forest modeling software from Remsoft for performing a wide variety of strategic analyses. Remsoft's Spatial Planning System is based on an iterative, hierarchical approach - starting with a forest level or strategic management plan and moving to a stand level or tactical plan. The suite is commonly used for harvest schedules, wood supply analyses, wildlife management plans, and forest ecosystems simulations. The basis of Woodstock is a modeling language that allows the user to describe the forest and actions operating on it in terms most appropriate to the modeling exercise. Thus, as much as it would be possible for an analyst to describe and quantify biodiversity and the related conditions and outcomes, it would be possible to use this tool to address the issues.
System origin
Support for specific issues
- Trade-off methods
- Landscape planning
Support for specific thematic areas of a problem type
- Silvicultural
- Certification
- Conservation
- Development choices / land use zoning
- Policy /intervention alternatives
- User defined
Capability to support decision making phases
[Intelligence, Design, Choice, Monitoring [1]]
Related systems
- Woodstock: forest modeling software for performing a wide variety of strategic analysis.
- Spatial Woodstock: a spatial data management and analysis tool and extension to Woodstock that spatially represents your model.
- Stanley: takes Woodstock results, which have been verified using Spatial Woodstock, and automatically creates and schedules harvest blocks or units.
Optionally, an LP Solver may be used.
Data and data models
Typical spatial extent of application
- User defined
- Regional
- Multi-owner forest
- Single-owner forest
- Site
Application is particularly suitable for any landbase of 10,000 ha or larger.
Forest data input
- User defined
- Stand
Ultimately depends on the end user's definitions.
Type of information input from user (via GUI)
- Management
- Biophysical
- Economic
- Social
Models
Forest models
- Silvicultural
- Fire
[had marked all] If these measures are defined in the model, then they can be addressed and reported on in the analysis
Social models
Decision Support
Definition of management interventions
[Define what is available for the manager to intervene in the forest: time of harvest, plantations, thinnings, reconversions...Existence of prescription writer, simple enumeration of all possibilities, scenario simulation , etc.]
Typical temporal scale of application
[Define the temporal scale of the application: E.g., operational and immediate level, Tactical planning (short term) and strategic level.]
Types of decisions supported
Decision-making processes and models
- Simulation
- Optimization
Including MIP, Goal-programming, area based modeling, Monte-Carlo simulation and others.
Output
Types of outputs
Spatial analysis capabilities
Abilities to address interdisciplinary, multi-scaled, and political issues
Produces coordinated results for decision makers at different scales: Implement forest plans from the forest down to the polygon level.
Facilitates social negotiation / learning: Commonly used for public communication, meetings, etc.
System
System requirements
Operating systems: WindowsnNT, Windows2000, WindowsXP PC Windows
Other software needed: Optionally, an LP Solver may be used.
Development status: Regularly distributed
Architecture and major DSS components
[Describe the basic architecture of the system in software and hardware. Desktop client-server, web based, as well as the integration with available systems. Basic data flow, focusing on retrieval of required input and propagation and implementations of decisions. Mention its modular and scalability capabilities.]
Usage
Used extensively by larger private forest management companies, and a number of state/provincial and federal governments. Company website claims that over 500-million acres of forestland on five continents managed using Remsoft software.
Computational limitations
[Describe the system limitations: e.g. number of management units, number of vehicles, time horizon.]
User interface
User interface quality:
Complexity of system / user interface: Depends on level and complexity of modeling problem to be addressed
Documentation and support
Documentation: Complete user guides ship with the software
Support: Online user's group & support documents, monthly newsletter. Optional annual support and upgrades program for Woodstock, Spatial Woodstock and Stanley.
Training: Remsoft offers a number of customized training options that can be carried out either at Remsoft offices or your own premises. Typically three days in length, these are workshop-style classes that encourage hands-on participation.
Installation
Prerequisite knowledge needed: Forest modeling background and a good understanding of forest dynamics.
Cost: > $3000
Demo:
