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== General System description ==
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[[Image:printscreen_home.jpg|thumb|400px|SADPOF]]
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System name: Sistema de Apoio à Decisão em Planeamento Operacional Florestal
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Acronym: SADPOF
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=== Brief overview ===
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|Has wiki contact person=Alexandra Marques
Web based application for optimized forest operational planning (FOP). Currently solves harvest scheduling integrated with eucalyptus ([[:Category:Eucalyptus globulus |Eucalyptus globulus, Labill]]) wood logs and biomass assortment and assignment, under the scope of an integrated pulp and paper company.
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|Has wiki contact e-mail=asfmarques78@gmail.com
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[[Category:2008]]
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[[Category:Decision support system]]
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[[Category:Portuguese DSS]]
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{{DSS, Description
[[Category:Forest level]]
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|Has description=Web based application for optimized forest operational planning (FOP). Currently solves harvest scheduling integrated with eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus, Labill) wood logs and biomass assortment and assignment, under the scope of an integrated pulp and paper company.
[[Category:Tactical-Operational planning]]
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|Has modelling scope=Forest indicators
[[Category:.NET]]
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|Has temporal scale=Medium term (tactical), Short term (operational)
[[Category:WEB]]
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|Has spatial context=Spatial with no neighbourhood interrelations
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|Has spatial scale=Forest level, Regional/national level
 
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|Has objectives dimension=Multiple objectives
=== Scope of the system ===
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|Has goods and services dimension=Market non-wood products, Market wood products
SADPOF allows forest practitioners to simulate alternative FOP scenarios and computer economical and ecological scenario evaluation indicators for further scenario comparison. The results of the selected management scenario can be visualized into a GIS integrated module or presented in several pre-defined reports, like the Operational Plan.
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|Has forest management goal=forest fuel harvesting
 
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|supports tree species=Eucalyptus globulus
=== System origin ===
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|supports silvicultural regime=uneven-aged/plantation
The SADPOF prototype has developed in 2007-2008 in the course of Portuguese funding research project, coordinated by the IT Company Link Consulting [http://www.link.pt], with the scientific partnership of Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA) [http://www.isa.utl.pt] and the forest business experts from Grupo Portucel Soporcel [http://www. portucelsoporcel.com/pt/]. The latter were involved during the entire project and provided real-life requirements and test cases, which motivated the models and optimization algorithms developed by ISA. This prototype was publically presented to the Iberian Forest community during the FOP workshop organized by the partnership.
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It is still a work in progress as its current version implements a sub-set of the foreseen SADPOF functionalities. Further developments can include its productization and installation into real-life application cases.
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|Has typical use case=harvest scheduling, wood supply plan
=== Support for specific issues  ===
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|Has user profile=Non-industrial private owners
SADDPOF aims to provide optimized FOP scenarios and facilitate subsequent trade-off analysis. Its current scenarios establish monthly harvest schedules for different wood product assortments as well as its distribution networks from harvest sites to transformation centers, including terminals for intermediate storing. The harvest scheduling sub-problem accounts for spatial constraints, monthly forest roads accessibility and contractual obligations forcing harvest to occur before land rental contract expiration. The distribution sub-problem fulfills the monthly qualified destinations demands and relays on other specific transportation-distribution constraints, like road and railway transportation costs minimization, terminals maximum storing capacity and maximum storing time.
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|Has country=Portugal
 
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Furthermore, its novel technical architecture foresees specific decision support features, such as user’s scenario parameterization screens, scenario cloning for creating new scenarios based on existents, scenarios queue for accessing its processing status and automatically triggers simulation and optimization events. The GIS visualization and reporting templates meet the users’ real-life requirements.
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|Has number of real-life applications=0
[[Image:diagram_sadpof.jpg|thumb|400px|SADPOF forest tactical/operational planning problems]]
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|Has utilisation in education=presentation/demo
 
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|Has tool dissemination=Videos, scientific articles, communications on research and tecnhical events
=== Support for specific thematic areas of a problem type  ===
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* Silvicultural
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*Product Assortment
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* Assignment and distribution
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* Development choices / land use zoning
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Further developments will implement transportation planning and crews scheduling.
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=== Capability to support decision making phases  ===
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* Intelligence: SADPOF provides a structure approach to FOP problems as it identifies required information, allows the selection and parameterization of the management goals and constraints. It contributes for capturing existing technical knowledge and generates new decision support basis information through optimized scenarios economical and ecological assessments and trade-offs analysis.
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* Design: SADPOF simulates and assesses alternative FOP scenarios related within the goals and constraints selected by users.
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* Choice: SADPOF provide optimized solution for each FOP scenario, driving the decision-maker to choose among the best solutions.
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* Monitor: SADPOF is restricted to planning purposes. However its integration with operations follow-up system is foreseen, with special interest for adaptive real-time planning features.
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=== Related systems  ===
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SADPOF yearly harvesting stands sub-set results from with other strategic forest planning systems, such as [[SAGfLOR]]. The scenario characterization information can be resident in other related systems, like the forestland patrimony management system. Currently, SADPOF data canalization relays on pre-defined import formats, although integration interfaces can be developed. Similarly, the pre-defined outputs can feed other systems downstream of the planning process, such as forest services adjudication and operations follow-up systems.
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|Has website=http://www.link.pt/upl/%7B0757b300-68df-4497-b85a-b4bb3926396a%7D.pdf
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|Has reference=Marques AF, Borges JG, Sousa P, Gonçalves L, Diaz E, Moura P, Ferrinho M. 2011. Integrating harvest scheduling and timber assortment and assignment planning processes. An application to forest tactical planning by a pulpwood company in Portugal. Forest Science (prep); Marques AF, Borges JG, Sousa P, Fonseca M, Garcia R, Batista G. 2010. Applying enterprise architecture to the design of the integrated forest products supply chain management system. In: Varajão, Cunha M. (Eds.) Proceedings of the CENTERIS2010 Conference, Part II, CCIS 110, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010, pp. 32-40.
== Data and data models ==
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[[Image:printscreen_ParamModelo.jpg|thumb|400px|SADPOF model parameter GUI]]
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=== Typical spatial and temporal extent of application  ===
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SADPOF it’s a tactical/operational planning systems, encompassing 12 to 36 1-month temporal horizon. It typically deals with forest regional scale problems, although the wood destination network can be national or international.
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=== Forest data input  ===
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SADPOF required forest level input data.
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* Forest harvesting stand: geographical location, area, forest occupation, harvesting volume estimates at the initial planning period, wood piles geographical location, road accessibility months, contractual obligations, slope level, site index
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* Product assortment: type of product, product characteristics
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* Transformation center: geographical location, accepted products
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* Terminal: geographical location, accepted products
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* Distribution network: geographical representation, shortest path transportation distances by road and railway between each origin and destination
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=== Type of information input from user (via GUI) ===
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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....
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The user can change pre-defined parameter values in specific GUI:
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* Management model parameters:
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**Eucaliptus silvicultural system: maximum rotation, minimum harvesting age, installation density
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**Annual average growth in each site index
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**Economical information: harvesting unitary costs, installation unitary costs (with or without resprout removal) wood product prices per destination, transportation unitary costs, storing costs,  
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**Minimum qualified monthly demands on the destinations
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**Terminals maximum storing capacity and maximum storing time
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**Spatial constraints: minimum operational area, maximum operational area, minimum distance between adjacent stands, exclusion period
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**Minimum monthly level of stripped and un-stripped wood
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**Time horizon, interest rate
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* [[Category:Simulated Annealing]] parameters: Maximum number of iterations, Cooling parameters
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== Models ==
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=== Forest models ===
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*Eucaliptus wood logs volume and weight growth and yield models
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*Eucaliptus biomass prediction models
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*Eucaliptus wood logs drying models
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== Decision Support ==
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=== Decision-making processes and models ===
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*Operations research modeling
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**Simulated annealing and HAFS heuristics<ref> Marques, A. F., Borges, J.G., Gonçalves, L., Romano, M., 2009. A hybrid approach for integrating harvest scheduling and product assortment and assignment to transformation centers. Forest Science (under preparation) </ref>
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**Simulated annealing and transportation algorithm at LP Solve [[http://lpsolve.sourceforge.net/5.5/]] <ref>http://lpsolve.sourceforge.net/5.5/ </ref>
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**Model exportation in CPLEX [[http://ftp.ilog.fr/products/cplex/product/mip.cfm]] <ref>http://ftp.ilog.fr/products/cplex/product/mip.cfm </ref> template for optimal solution
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== Output ==
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[[Image:printscreen_PlanoCortes.jpg|thumb|400px|SADPOF Operational Plan: Harvesting and wood logs/biomass distribution plans]]
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[[Image:printscreen_SIG.jpg|thumb|400px|SADPOF SIG module: Distribution network for 4m wood logs in a specific period]]
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=== Types of  outputs ===
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The results of the selected management scenario can be visualized into a GIS integrated module or presented in several pre-defined reports, like the Operational Plan. This excel report presents a scenario optimization results summary as well as monthly harvest schedules and monthly qualified wood flows between the origins and destinations.
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=== Spatial analysis capabilities  ===
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* integrated capabilities in the SADPOF GIS module
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* facilitates links to other GIS systems
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== System ==
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=== System requirements  ===
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* Client requirements:
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**Browser with web connectivity
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**Minimum Windows XP
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* Server requirements:
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**Windows Server 2003
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**SQL Server 2005
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**.Net 3.5
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**1 GB memory
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** minimum Duo Core Processor
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=== Architecture and major DSS components ===
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[[Image:diagrama_arq.jpg|thumb|400px|SADPOF modular components]]
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The forest practitioners were involved during the entire project, particularly at SADPOF architecture and specification, using the Enterprise Architecture approach <ref>Marques, A. F., Borges, J.G., Sousa, P., Pinho, A., 2009. PulpWood Supply Chain Architecture. An application in Portugal. European Journal of Forest Research (submitted) <\ref> <ref>Marques, A. F., Borges, J.G., Sousa, P., Moura, P., Ferrinho, M., 2009. Designing computerized systems to support operational forest management planning. Computer and Electronics in Agriculture (prep) </ref>.
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The SADPOF three layer modular architecture encompasses the common business information and scenario data repositories, the GUI interfaces for the several FOP application modules and their specific simulator and optimizer component.  
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Visual Studio 2008 (C#) is the SADPOF developing environment, except for the GIS module implemented in Open Source MapWinGis [[http://www.mapwindow.org]] <ref> http://www.mapwindow.org </ref>
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=== Usage ===
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Currently it has research use.
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=== Installation ===
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* It requires prior user training on the SADPOF concepts.
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* Demo: trial and demo versions can be given by request [[alexmarques@isa.utl.pt]].
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==References==
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===Cited references===
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<references/>
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Latest revision as of 16:05, 3 April 2013

Wiki quality control

Has flag N/A

Name, responsible organisation and contact person

Has full name
Has acronym SADPOF
Has wiki contact person Alexandra Marques
Has wiki contact e-mail asfmarques78@gmail.com

Software identification

Has software SADPOF.Software identification

Description

Has description Web based application for optimized forest operational planning (FOP). Currently solves harvest scheduling integrated with eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus, Labill) wood logs and biomass assortment and assignment, under the scope of an integrated pulp and paper company.
Has modelling scope Forest indicators
Has temporal scale Medium term (tactical), Short term (operational)
Has spatial context Spatial with no neighbourhood interrelations
Has spatial scale Forest level, Regional/national level
Has objectives dimension Multiple objectives
Has related DSS
Has goods and services dimension Market non-wood products, Market wood products
Has decision making dimension Single decision maker
Has forest management goal forest fuel harvesting
Supports tree species
Supports silvicultural regime

Concrete application

Has typical use case harvest scheduling, wood supply plan
Has user profile Non-industrial private owners
Has country Portugal
Has references about examples of application
Has number of users 0
Has number of real-life applications 0
Has utilisation in education presentation/demo
Has research project reference
Has tool dissemination Videos, scientific articles, communications on research and tecnhical events

Decision support techniques used in the DSS

Has decision support techniques SADPOF.Decision support techniques used in the DSS

Support of Knowledge Management

Has knowledge management processes SADPOF.Support of Knowledge Management

Support of social participation

Has support for social participation SADPOF.Support of social participation

DSS development

Has DSS development SADPOF.DSS development

Documentation

Has website http://www.link.pt/upl/%7B0757b300-68df-4497-b85a-b4bb3926396a%7D.pdf
Has online demo
Has manual
Has technical documentation
Has reference Marques AF, Borges JG, Sousa P, Gonçalves L, Diaz E, Moura P, Ferrinho M. 2011. Integrating harvest scheduling and timber assortment and assignment planning processes. An application to forest tactical planning by a pulpwood company in Portugal. Forest Science (prep); Marques AF, Borges JG, Sousa P, Fonseca M, Garcia R, Batista G. 2010. Applying enterprise architecture to the design of the integrated forest products supply chain management system. In: Varajão, Cunha M. (Eds.) Proceedings of the CENTERIS2010 Conference, Part II, CCIS 110, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010, pp. 32-40.