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−	[[Category:Decision support system]]	+	|Has flag=N/A
−	[[Category:Italian DSS]]	+	}}
−	[[Category:2007]]	+	{{DSS, Name, responsible organisation and contact person
−	[[Category:Forest vegetation management]]	+	|Has full name=ProgettoBosco Assestamento
−	[[Category:Stand level]]	+	|Has acronym=PB or PB Assestamento
−	[[Category:Operational planning]]	+	|Has wiki contact person=Fabrizio Ferretti
−	[[Category:Multi-platform application]]	+	|Has wiki contact e-mail=fabrizio.ferretti@entecra.it
−	[[Category:Free of charge]]	+	}}
−	__TOC__	+	{{DSS, Software identification
−	=== General System description ===	+	|Has software=ProgettoBosco.Software
		+	}}
		+	{{DSS, Description
		+	|Has description=ProgettoBosco is a Data-Driven Decision Support Systems, aimed at optimising the data collection on forest and forest management of Italy. With ProgettoBosco a unique, participated and shared information system effective for all forest typologies existing in Italy was accomplished.
		+	|Has modelling scope=Forest indicators
		+	|Has temporal scale=Medium term (tactical)
		+	|Has spatial context=Spatial with no neighbourhood interrelations
		+	|Has spatial scale=Forest level
		+	|Has objectives dimension=Multiple objectives
		+	|Has goods and services dimension=Market non-wood products, Market services, Market wood products, Non-market services
		+	|Has decision making dimension=Single decision maker
		+	|Has forest management goal=forest vegetation management, silvicultural regime, multi-functional
		+	|Supports tree species=all
		+	|Supports silvicultural regime=user defined
		+	}}
		+	{{DSS, Concrete application
		+	|Has typical use case=property planning
		+	|Has user profile=service providers
		+	|Has country=Italy
		+	|Has number of users=<=100
		+	|Has number of real-life applications=<=100
		+	|Has utilisation in education=used by students
		+	|Has tool dissemination=as
		+	}}
		+	{{DSS, Decision support techniques used in the DSS
		+	|Has decision support techniques=ProgettoBosco.Decision support techniques
		+	}}
		+	{{DSS, Support of Knowledge Management
		+	|Has knowledge management processes=ProgettoBosco.Knowledge management process
		+	}}
		+	{{DSS, Support of social participation
		+	|Has support for social participation=ProgettoBosco.Support of social participation
		+	}}
		+	{{DSS, DSS development
		+	|Has DSS development=ProgettoBosco.Description of DSS development
		+	}}
		+	{{DSS, Documentation
		+	|Has website=http://www.progettobosco.it
		+	|Has manual=Yes
		+	|Has technical documentation=Yes
		+	|Has reference=Ferretti, F., Dibari, C., De Meo, I., Cantiani, P., Bianchi, M., 2011. ProgettoBosco, a Data-Driven Decision Support System for forest planning. Mathematical and Computational Forestry & Natural-Resource Sciences (MCFNS), 3 (1), 27–35. Available at: http://mcfns.com/index.php/Journal/article/view/MCFNS.3-27
		+	}}
		+	= ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (needs to be migrated using the "edit with form" link) =
		+	=== Scope of the system ===
		+	Italian forests are characterized by a wide heterogeneity range of planning systems and rules, which are rather unfeasible to be compared in time and space under a unique perspective, often also within the same administrative Region.
		+	Within this context and according to Data-Driven Decision Support Systems definition (Power 2008) “ProgettoBosco” aims at optimising the collection of all data concerning with Italian forests and forest management, by implementing a nationally standardized method and tool for monitoring and supporting forest planning and forest policy choices from a local to a national scale.
		+	This means: i) to attain the comparison in time and space of all the collected information; ii) to facilitate  data reading also at higher scales; iii) to make much easier the control of forest plans; iv) to standardise on field training education of experts by improving their competences; v) to facilitate the control on the application of the plan’s disposals and rules; vi) to easily keep update forest management plan database.
−	System name: ProgettoBosco Assestamento	+	For this reason, for ProgettoBosco was a priority:
		+	- the definition of a minimum and common information level for describing forest areas under a unique technical and management perspective;
		+	- the implementation of an information system in order to facilitate the comparison in space and time of basic forest management data;
		+	- to provide public administrators and policy makers with a fast and efficient tool to cope with regional, national or international rules (e.g. EU-financing, agreements on biodiversity, sustainability, carbon stock).
−	Acronym:
−	=== Brief overview ===	+	=== System origin ===
−	ProgettoBosco is a Data-Driven Decision Support Systems, aimed at optimising the data collection on forest and forest management of Italy was developed. With ProgettoBosco a unique, participated and shared information system effective for all forest typologies existing in Italy was accomplished	+	ProgettoBosco is a freeware developed by CRA - Agricultural Research Council (Italy).
−	[[Category:Help documents]]	+	The project started up in late-eighties from the experience driven with Emilia Romagna and Umbria Regions where a first forest planning information system was implemented and tested at a local scale. Later on, thanks to the funds of the Italian Agricultural and Forestry Department of the Government Policy Ministry through the national research project named Ri.Selv.Italia, (2001-2007), an homogeneous forest planning system and a management method at national level was implemented.
		+	By Ri.Selv.Italia Project, ProgettoBosco has been further implemented and consists nowadays of 8 Regions adopting these experimental management plans, plus 7 more participating so as to make methods and tools compatible with their territorial and administrative peculiarity. Thus, the project involved more than 150 scientists and experts (among researchers, forest managers, technicians belonging to Regional Forest Services), joined in an interdisciplinary team consisting of forest scientists, agronomists, economists, architects, landscape-fauna and phyto-sociology experts, engineers.
−	__TOC__	+	Specific tests were set-up to adapt ProgettoBosco's methods and tools to university and professional formation.
−	=== Scope of the system ===	+	At the moment, ProgettoBosco is used as a research tool, in teaching, as well as for practical forest planning purposes.
−	* tool encourages decision maker to discover new problems or opportunities by exposing to new information or results	+
−	* tool helps decision makers in recognizing upcoming problems for which solutions have been developed previously	+
−	* tool allows decision maker to actively create new knowledge when faced with a new problem and to develop novel solutions	+
−	* tool allows decision maker to capture knowledge, making it available to decision makers who are seeking solutions from previously solved problems	+
−		+
−	=== System origin ===	+
−	* Who and when was it developed	+
−	* how was it developed	+
−	* is it a commercial product	+
−	* does it have real-life application cases	+
	=== Support for specific issues  ===		=== Support for specific issues  ===
−	Is the system designed to take into account specific uses? E.g. guidance on ways to characterize biodiversity, economic-biodiversity tradeoff analysis methods, risk assessment methods, landscape analysis methods, timber harvest effects, climate change effects, biological effects (pests, pathogens, invasives), fire,...	+	ProgettoBosco supports technicians to produce forest management plans. ProgettoBosco provides a large number of control variables (manipulation possibilities) divided into two main groups of data: one related to management and environmental features of forest compartment and the other one to specific bioecological management information referred to the forest stand (forest stand, tree plantations, shrubs and pasture.
	=== Support for specific thematic areas of a problem type  ===		=== Support for specific thematic areas of a problem type  ===
		+	* Forest planning
	* Silvicultural		* Silvicultural
	* Certification		* Certification
	* Conservation		* Conservation
−	* Restoration
−	* Transportation
	* Development choices / land use zoning		* Development choices / land use zoning
	* Policy/intervention alternatives		* Policy/intervention alternatives
−	* Sustainability impact assessment (SIA)
	=== Capability to support decision making phases  ===		=== Capability to support decision making phases  ===
−	''(NOTE I do not quite know what to do with this, as I do not understand it myself, although it seems related to system use)''	+	According to Data-Driven Decision Support Systems definition (Power 2008), in ProgettoBosco data can be easily managed, queried, summarized, ad hoc filtered and retrieved also through the help of specific alerts and triggers and a very user-friendly interface. Specific data displays can be also created within report design, generation and storage. A very good integration with MS Excel software, one of the broader software used by foresters to analyze field data, is also ensured.
−		+
−	(Click [[Simon's decision making model|here]] to see a more detailed explanation)	+
−	* Intelligence (+ explicit description of the support given by the DSS)	+
−	* Design (+ explicit description of the support given by the DSS)	+
−	* Choice (+ explicit description of the support given by the DSS)	+
−	* Monitor (+ explicit description of the support given by the DSS)	+
	=== Related systems  ===		=== Related systems  ===
−	Describe (and/or link to) other systems related
		+	- - - - - - - -
		+
	== Data and data models ==		== Data and data models ==
	=== Typical spatial extent of application  ===		=== Typical spatial extent of application  ===
−	Define the scale of use for the application (user defined, regional, multi-owner forest single ownership forest, Multiple scale interaction)	+	User defined (from single ownership forest to regional level)
	=== Forest data input  ===		=== Forest data input  ===
−	Describe the basic forest input (forest level, stand level, or individual tree level), and appropriate meta-data, such as data provenance (Areal coverage, Sample of plots, stands, Contiguous forest cover). GIS information is to be considered here, namely include cover tyes and type of information (raster or vectorial, necessity of topological information)  If necessary describe surrogate sources of information
−	If necessary describe other types of required data (economic, social)	+	Location, site, and stand data (such as lithology, aspect, slope, disturbances, land use, vegetation types, dominating vegetation cover, cover gaps, secondary vegetation cover, agro-forest management disturbances, forest practices, forest engineering practices, bushes cover, grasses cover, dead materials cover, dendrometric data). GIS information: stand polygons (vectorial with topological information)
		+
		+	Volume tables are required; in ProgettoBosco are already avalaible 547 national and local volume tables
	=== Type of information input from user (via GUI) ===		=== Type of information input from user (via GUI) ===
−	Describe what is the information that the user directly inputs in the system if any): expert knowledge, opinion, goals and production objectives, preferences, stand/site information....	+	All the forest data are provided by users filling predefined forms
		+
	== Models ==		== Models ==
	=== Forest models ===		=== Forest models ===
−	Growth, Yield, Carbon, Wood quality, biodiversity and habitat suitability, environmental and external effects (fire, storms, pests, diseases, climate change, etc)
		+	- - - - - - - -
		+
	=== Social models  ===		=== Social models  ===
−	historical and cultural values of sites, values due to peace and quiet, esthetic values, values due to recreational activities, ethical values): E. g. Recreation, Health, Game
−
		+	- - - - - - - -
		+
	== Decision Support ==		== Decision Support ==
	=== Definition of management interventions ===		=== Definition of management interventions ===
−	Define what is available for the manager to intervene in the forest: time of harvest, plantations, thinnings, reconversions...	+	The planner defines when and how 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 ===		=== 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.	+	Silvicultural measures taken at stand level are typically defined for a planning period of 10 years.
	=== Types of decisions supported  ===		=== Types of decisions supported  ===
−	*Management level	+	* planning decisions (management and sylvicultural actions)
−	**strategic decisions	+	* management plans production (compartment description processing, working circle, dendrometric data processing, felling plan)
−	**administrative decisions	+
−	**operating control decisions	+	According to Data-Driven Decision Support Systems definition (Power 2008), in ProgettoBosco data can be easily managed, queried, summarized, ad hoc filtered and retrieved also through the help of specific alerts and triggers and a very user-friendly interface. Specific data displays can be also created within report design, generation and storage. A very good integration with MS Excel software, one of the broader software used by foresters to analyze field data, is also ensured
−	* Management function	+
−	* planning decisions	+
−	**organizing decisions	+
−	**command decisions	+
−	**control decisions	+
−	** coordination decisions	+
−	*decision making situation	+
−	**unilateral	+
−	** collegial	+
−	**Bargaining / participative decision making	+
	=== Decision-making processes and models ===		=== Decision-making processes and models ===
−	*Logic modeling
−	*Operations research modeling
−	**Direct approaches
−	**Heuristic manipulation of simulation models
−	*Business modeling
−	*Simulation (with and without stochasticity)
−	*Multiple criteria/ranking
−	*Other
		+	Within ProgettoBosco the data are processed by “trial and error”. By this, the user can test several management scenarios and then choose the one which looks to be the best.
		+	The decision making process is an iterative process. First, the user analyses the necessary input to make a decision. Then building and interpretation of the simulation outputs is left up to the user. After making the decision, the user analyses its feasibility by comparing it to the present situation and to his targets. The decisions taken are recorded .
		+
	== Output ==		== Output ==
	=== Types of  outputs ===		=== Types of  outputs ===
−	Types of outputs produced (tables, maps, 3-D visualizations, pre-programmed summaries, etc)	+	The outputs are shown as texts, tables, charts and maps
−		+
	=== Spatial analysis capabilities  ===		=== Spatial analysis capabilities  ===
−	* integrated capabilities	+	* facilitates links to GIS (stand polygons)
−	* facilitates links to GIS (wizards, etc.)	+
	* provides standard data import/export formats		* provides standard data import/export formats
−	* allows spatial analysis (e.g. topology overlays (e.g. multi layering of different maps, selection of objects based on selection criteria, aggregation by attributes (e.g. areas of similar characteristics), Linking by logical means, Statistics by area, analysis with digital terrain model)
	=== Abilities to address interdisciplinary, multi-scaled, and political issues  ===		=== Abilities to address interdisciplinary, multi-scaled, and political issues  ===
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	=== System requirements  ===		=== System requirements  ===
−	* Operating Systems: (Windows, Macintosh, Linux/UNIX, Web-based, Others)	+	* Operating Systems: MS-XP Professional
−	* Other software needed (GIS, MIP packages, etc...)	+	* Other software needed: MS Access 2000, ESRI-ARC-GIS 9.x
−	* Development status	+	* Development status: ProgettoBosco 2010 (first release ProgettoBosco 1991)
	=== Architecture and major DSS components ===		=== 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.	+	ProgettoBosco is built within MS Access 2000 using Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA).
		+
		+	We are now implementing an open source web-gis release
	=== Usage ===		=== Usage ===
−	Describe the level of use: Research level use, Industry use, Government use	+	Regional Government Officials, forest planners, technical personnel, forest decision makers, scientific community, forestry students.
	=== Computational limitations ===		=== Computational limitations ===
−	Describe the system limitations: e.g. number of management units, number of vehicles, time horizon	+	MS Access 2000 limits
	=== User interface ===		=== User interface ===
−	Describe the quality of user interface and the Prerequisite knowledge for using the system	+	An user friendly interface was developed so that even computer no-experts can be comfortable in the use of the software.
		+	The forms structure looks like a forest management plans or similar documents.
	=== Documentation and support ===		=== Documentation and support ===
−	Describe the connection to Help-system and possibilities for assistance, as well as the required training and user support levels	+	Three different manuals: field manual, software manual, integration between ProgettoBosco and ARC-GIS 9.x manual
		+	User support level: by e-mail and phone
	=== Installation ===		=== Installation ===
−	* Prerequisite knowledge: Level of effort to become functional	+	* Prerequisite knowledge: how to produce a forest managment plan; basic knowledge of MS Access 2000
−	* Cost: (purchase price, development costs, demonstrated return on investment, cost of use, training costs, licence and maintenance costs)	+	* Cost: free of charge
−	* Demo: allows the download/utilization of a trial version. If yes, where is it available and what are the trial conditions.	+	* Demo: - - - - - - - -
−	==References==	+	=References=
−	===Cited references===	+	==Cited references==
	<references/>		<references/>
		+	Power, D. J. 2008. Understanding Data-Driven Decision Support Systems. Information Systems Management 25 (2): 149 – 154
		+
		+	==External resources==
		+	* Agnoloni, S., Bianchi, M., Bianchetto, E., Cantiani, P., De Meo, I., Dibari, C. & Ferretti F., 2009. I piani forestali territoriali di indirizzo: una proposta metodologica. Forest@ 1: 140-147.
		+	* Bianchi M., Cantiani P., Ferretti F. (2006) (a). Criteri per la raccolta e organizzazione dei dati e per l’informatizzazione delle procedure per la pianificazione e gestione forestale. Annali C.R.A. – ISSEL. Vol 32 Numero Speciale Progettobosco, 2001: 9-24.
		+	* Bianchi M., Cantiani P., Ferretti F. (2006) (b). Metodo per la raccolta e organizzazione dei dati e per l’informatizzazione delle procedure per la pianificazione e gestione forestale. Annali C.R.A. – ISSEL. Vol 32 Numero Speciale Progettobosco, 2001: 25-95.
		+	* Ciolli, M., Ferretti, F., Sboarina C., Vitti A., Zatelli, P., Zottele, F. (2006) “Migrating the Italian Forestry data base from an local proprietary software based architecture to a client-server FOSS based system”, Contributo a "FOSS4G2006 - Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics", Losanna, Svizzera, 11-15 settembre 2006. URL : http://www.foss4g2006
		+	* Ciolli, M., Ferretti, F., Sboarina C., Vitti A., Zatelli, P., Zottele, F. (2007) Studio di migrazione del data base dell'assestamento forestale “ProgettoBosco” da un'architettura MS Access-ESRI ARCVIEW ad un'architettura CLIENT SERVER Php PostgreSQL e WEBGIS. Contributo a GRASS Meeting Palermo 14-16 febbraio 2007
		+	* Dibari C., Ferretti F., Bianchi M., Cantiani P. (2007) ProgettoBosco: il personal Geodatabase a supporto della pianificazione forestale. Atti del convegno ESRI. Roma.
		+	* Ferretti F. (2007). Ri.Selv.Italia, Sottoprogetto 4.2 Sistema informativo geografico per la gestione forestale. Relazione Finale.
		+
		+	Part of documentation about ProgettoBosco and research project can find at
		+
		+	http://www.progettobosco.it/
		+
		+	http://www.ricercaforestale.it/riselvitalia/?q=node/74
−	===External resources===	+	http://www.ricercaforestale.it/riselvitalia/?q=node/494

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Wiki quality control

Has flag	N/A

Name, responsible organisation and contact person

Has full name	ProgettoBosco Assestamento
Has acronym	PB or PB Assestamento
Has wiki contact person	Fabrizio Ferretti
Has wiki contact e-mail	fabrizio.ferretti@entecra.it

Software identification

Has software	ProgettoBosco.Software

Description

Has description	ProgettoBosco is a Data-Driven Decision Support Systems, aimed at optimising the data collection on forest and forest management of Italy. With ProgettoBosco a unique, participated and shared information system effective for all forest typologies existing in Italy was accomplished.
Has modelling scope	Forest indicators
Has temporal scale	Medium term (tactical)
Has spatial context	Spatial with no neighbourhood interrelations
Has spatial scale	Forest 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	Single decision maker
Has forest management goal	forest vegetation management, silvicultural regime, multi-functional
Supports tree species	all
Supports silvicultural regime	user defined

Concrete application

Has typical use case	property planning
Has user profile	service providers
Has country	Italy
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
Has tool dissemination	as

Decision support techniques used in the DSS

Has decision support techniques	ProgettoBosco.Decision support techniques

Support of Knowledge Management

Has knowledge management processes	ProgettoBosco.Knowledge management process

Support of social participation

Has support for social participation	ProgettoBosco.Support of social participation

DSS development

Has DSS development	ProgettoBosco.Description of DSS development

Documentation

Has website	http://www.progettobosco.it
Has online demo
Has manual	Yes
Has technical documentation	Yes
Has reference	Ferretti, F., Dibari, C., De Meo, I., Cantiani, P., Bianchi, M., 2011. ProgettoBosco, a Data-Driven Decision Support System for forest planning. Mathematical and Computational Forestry & Natural-Resource Sciences (MCFNS), 3 (1), 27–35. Available at: http://mcfns.com/index.php/Journal/article/view/MCFNS.3-27

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (needs to be migrated using the "edit with form" link)

Scope of the system

Italian forests are characterized by a wide heterogeneity range of planning systems and rules, which are rather unfeasible to be compared in time and space under a unique perspective, often also within the same administrative Region. Within this context and according to Data-Driven Decision Support Systems definition (Power 2008) “ProgettoBosco” aims at optimising the collection of all data concerning with Italian forests and forest management, by implementing a nationally standardized method and tool for monitoring and supporting forest planning and forest policy choices from a local to a national scale. This means: i) to attain the comparison in time and space of all the collected information; ii) to facilitate data reading also at higher scales; iii) to make much easier the control of forest plans; iv) to standardise on field training education of experts by improving their competences; v) to facilitate the control on the application of the plan’s disposals and rules; vi) to easily keep update forest management plan database.

For this reason, for ProgettoBosco was a priority: - the definition of a minimum and common information level for describing forest areas under a unique technical and management perspective; - the implementation of an information system in order to facilitate the comparison in space and time of basic forest management data; - to provide public administrators and policy makers with a fast and efficient tool to cope with regional, national or international rules (e.g. EU-financing, agreements on biodiversity, sustainability, carbon stock).

System origin

ProgettoBosco is a freeware developed by CRA - Agricultural Research Council (Italy).

The project started up in late-eighties from the experience driven with Emilia Romagna and Umbria Regions where a first forest planning information system was implemented and tested at a local scale. Later on, thanks to the funds of the Italian Agricultural and Forestry Department of the Government Policy Ministry through the national research project named Ri.Selv.Italia, (2001-2007), an homogeneous forest planning system and a management method at national level was implemented. By Ri.Selv.Italia Project, ProgettoBosco has been further implemented and consists nowadays of 8 Regions adopting these experimental management plans, plus 7 more participating so as to make methods and tools compatible with their territorial and administrative peculiarity. Thus, the project involved more than 150 scientists and experts (among researchers, forest managers, technicians belonging to Regional Forest Services), joined in an interdisciplinary team consisting of forest scientists, agronomists, economists, architects, landscape-fauna and phyto-sociology experts, engineers.

Specific tests were set-up to adapt ProgettoBosco's methods and tools to university and professional formation.

At the moment, ProgettoBosco is used as a research tool, in teaching, as well as for practical forest planning purposes.

Support for specific issues

ProgettoBosco supports technicians to produce forest management plans. ProgettoBosco provides a large number of control variables (manipulation possibilities) divided into two main groups of data: one related to management and environmental features of forest compartment and the other one to specific bioecological management information referred to the forest stand (forest stand, tree plantations, shrubs and pasture.

Support for specific thematic areas of a problem type

• Forest planning
• Silvicultural
• Certification
• Conservation
• Development choices / land use zoning
• Policy/intervention alternatives

Capability to support decision making phases

According to Data-Driven Decision Support Systems definition (Power 2008), in ProgettoBosco data can be easily managed, queried, summarized, ad hoc filtered and retrieved also through the help of specific alerts and triggers and a very user-friendly interface. Specific data displays can be also created within report design, generation and storage. A very good integration with MS Excel software, one of the broader software used by foresters to analyze field data, is also ensured.

Related systems

- - - - - - - -

Data and data models

Typical spatial extent of application

User defined (from single ownership forest to regional level)

Forest data input

Location, site, and stand data (such as lithology, aspect, slope, disturbances, land use, vegetation types, dominating vegetation cover, cover gaps, secondary vegetation cover, agro-forest management disturbances, forest practices, forest engineering practices, bushes cover, grasses cover, dead materials cover, dendrometric data). GIS information: stand polygons (vectorial with topological information)

Volume tables are required; in ProgettoBosco are already avalaible 547 national and local volume tables

Type of information input from user (via GUI)

All the forest data are provided by users filling predefined forms

Models

Forest models

- - - - - - - -

Social models

- - - - - - - -

Decision Support

Definition of management interventions

The planner defines when and how to intervene in the forest: time of harvest, plantations, thinnings, reconversions...

Typical temporal scale of application

Silvicultural measures taken at stand level are typically defined for a planning period of 10 years.

Types of decisions supported

• planning decisions (management and sylvicultural actions)
• management plans production (compartment description processing, working circle, dendrometric data processing, felling plan)

According to Data-Driven Decision Support Systems definition (Power 2008), in ProgettoBosco data can be easily managed, queried, summarized, ad hoc filtered and retrieved also through the help of specific alerts and triggers and a very user-friendly interface. Specific data displays can be also created within report design, generation and storage. A very good integration with MS Excel software, one of the broader software used by foresters to analyze field data, is also ensured

Decision-making processes and models

Within ProgettoBosco the data are processed by “trial and error”. By this, the user can test several management scenarios and then choose the one which looks to be the best. The decision making process is an iterative process. First, the user analyses the necessary input to make a decision. Then building and interpretation of the simulation outputs is left up to the user. After making the decision, the user analyses its feasibility by comparing it to the present situation and to his targets. The decisions taken are recorded .

Output

Types of outputs

The outputs are shown as texts, tables, charts and maps

Spatial analysis capabilities

• facilitates links to GIS (stand polygons)
• provides standard data import/export formats

Abilities to address interdisciplinary, multi-scaled, and political issues

Evaluate interactions between different basic information types (biophysical, economic, social). Produce coordinated results for decision makers operating at different spatial scales facilitate social negotiation and learning

System

System requirements

• Operating Systems: MS-XP Professional
• Other software needed: MS Access 2000, ESRI-ARC-GIS 9.x
• Development status: ProgettoBosco 2010 (first release ProgettoBosco 1991)

Architecture and major DSS components

ProgettoBosco is built within MS Access 2000 using Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA).

We are now implementing an open source web-gis release

Usage

Regional Government Officials, forest planners, technical personnel, forest decision makers, scientific community, forestry students.

Computational limitations

MS Access 2000 limits

User interface

An user friendly interface was developed so that even computer no-experts can be comfortable in the use of the software. The forms structure looks like a forest management plans or similar documents.

Documentation and support

Three different manuals: field manual, software manual, integration between ProgettoBosco and ARC-GIS 9.x manual User support level: by e-mail and phone

Installation

• Prerequisite knowledge: how to produce a forest managment plan; basic knowledge of MS Access 2000
• Cost: free of charge
• Demo: - - - - - - - -

References

Cited references

Power, D. J. 2008. Understanding Data-Driven Decision Support Systems. Information Systems Management 25 (2): 149 – 154

External resources

• Agnoloni, S., Bianchi, M., Bianchetto, E., Cantiani, P., De Meo, I., Dibari, C. & Ferretti F., 2009. I piani forestali territoriali di indirizzo: una proposta metodologica. Forest@ 1: 140-147.
• Bianchi M., Cantiani P., Ferretti F. (2006) (a). Criteri per la raccolta e organizzazione dei dati e per l’informatizzazione delle procedure per la pianificazione e gestione forestale. Annali C.R.A. – ISSEL. Vol 32 Numero Speciale Progettobosco, 2001: 9-24.
• Bianchi M., Cantiani P., Ferretti F. (2006) (b). Metodo per la raccolta e organizzazione dei dati e per l’informatizzazione delle procedure per la pianificazione e gestione forestale. Annali C.R.A. – ISSEL. Vol 32 Numero Speciale Progettobosco, 2001: 25-95.
• Ciolli, M., Ferretti, F., Sboarina C., Vitti A., Zatelli, P., Zottele, F. (2006) “Migrating the Italian Forestry data base from an local proprietary software based architecture to a client-server FOSS based system”, Contributo a "FOSS4G2006 - Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics", Losanna, Svizzera, 11-15 settembre 2006. URL : http://www.foss4g2006
• Ciolli, M., Ferretti, F., Sboarina C., Vitti A., Zatelli, P., Zottele, F. (2007) Studio di migrazione del data base dell'assestamento forestale “ProgettoBosco” da un'architettura MS Access-ESRI ARCVIEW ad un'architettura CLIENT SERVER Php PostgreSQL e WEBGIS. Contributo a GRASS Meeting Palermo 14-16 febbraio 2007
• Dibari C., Ferretti F., Bianchi M., Cantiani P. (2007) ProgettoBosco: il personal Geodatabase a supporto della pianificazione forestale. Atti del convegno ESRI. Roma.
• Ferretti F. (2007). Ri.Selv.Italia, Sottoprogetto 4.2 Sistema informativo geografico per la gestione forestale. Relazione Finale.

Part of documentation about ProgettoBosco and research project can find at

http://www.progettobosco.it/

http://www.ricercaforestale.it/riselvitalia/?q=node/74

http://www.ricercaforestale.it/riselvitalia/?q=node/494