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General System description

System name: GB Forestry Decision Support System

Acronym: None

Brief overview

British government Decision Support System, presented as a web application in its current version (Forest Research Decision Support Portal; note that registration is required). It includes eight different tools according to the objectives that are sought:

• Conifer Timber Quality
• ESC (Ecological Site Classification)
• EMIS (Establishment Management Information System)
• ForestGALES (wind damage risk evaluation DSS)
• Forest Maps
• Herbicide Advisor
• HMSS (Hylobius Management Support System)
• Stormrisk

Each of this tools is described in detail in its corresponding subpage.

Scope of the system

This DSS comprises the eight different tools before mentioned, and it has the ability to answer to a very wide range of management problems. All of the tools are specific for their use in the Great Britain.

System origin

Each tool has been developed more or less independently from the others, by different teams. All of them are hosted on the internet, and all of them are free to use, only needing to be registered, except the Hylobius Management Support System, who requires the payment of some subscription charges.

Support for specific issues

Ecological site classification, afforestation scheduling, pest risks, wind hazard, herbicide and pesticide use or timber quality characterization.

Support for specific thematic areas of a problem type

• Silvicultural
• Certification
• Conservation
• Restoration
• Development choices / land use zoning
• Policy/intervention alternatives
• Sustainability impact assessment (SIA)

Related systems

• HaRPSS

References

External resources

Forest Research Decision Support Portal