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== General System description ==  
 
== General System description ==  
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[[Image:printscreen_home.jpg|thumb|400px|SADPOF]]
  
 
System name: Sistema de Apoio à Decisão em Planeamento Operacional Florestal
 
System name: Sistema de Apoio à Decisão em Planeamento Operacional Florestal
 
 
Acronym: SADPOF
 
Acronym: SADPOF
  
 
=== Brief overview ===
 
=== Brief overview ===
Web based application for optimized forest operational planning. Currently solves the harvest scheduling integrated with wood logs and biomass assortment and assignment, under the scope of an integrated pulp and paper company.
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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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[[Category:Finished articles]]
[[Category:Help documents]]
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[[Category:2008]]
 
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[[Category:Decision support system]]
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[[Category:Landscape quality]]
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[[Category:Portuguese DSS]]
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[[Category:Forest level]]
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[[Category:Tactical-Operational planning]]
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[[Category:.NET]]
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[[Category:WEB]]
 
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=== Scope of the system ===
 
=== Scope of the system ===
* tool encourages decision maker to discover new problems or opportunities by exposing to new information or results
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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.
* tool allows forest practitioners to simulate alternative management scenarios and provides proper economical and ecological scenario evaluation indicators for further scenario comparison
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=== System origin ===
 
=== System origin ===
* Who and when was it developed
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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.
* how was it developed
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* is it a commercial product
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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.
* does it have real-life application cases
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=== 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,...  
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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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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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[[Image:diagram_sadpof.jpg|thumb|400px|SADPOF forest tactical/operational planning problems]]
  
 
=== Support for specific thematic areas of a problem type  ===
 
=== Support for specific thematic areas of a problem type  ===
 
* Silvicultural  
 
* Silvicultural  
* Certification
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*Product Assortment
* Conservation
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* Assignment and distribution
* Restoration
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* Development choices / land use zoning
* Transportation
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Further developments will implement transportation planning and crews scheduling.
* Development choices / land use zoning  
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* Policy/intervention alternatives
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* Sustainability impact assessment (SIA)
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=== Capability to support decision making phases  ===
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''(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)''
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(Click [[Simon's decision making model|here]] to see a more detailed explanation)
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* Intelligence (+ explicit description of the support given by the DSS)
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* Design (+ explicit description of the support given by the DSS)
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* Choice (+ explicit description of the support given by the DSS)
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* Monitor (+ explicit description of the support given by the DSS)
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=== Related systems  ===
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Describe (and/or link to) other systems related
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== Data and data models ==
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=== Typical spatial extent of application  ===
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Define the scale of use for the application (user defined, regional, multi-owner forest single ownership forest, Multiple scale interaction)
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=== Forest data input  ===
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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
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If necessary describe other types of required data (economic, social)
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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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== Models ==
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=== Forest models ===
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Growth, Yield, Carbon, Wood quality, biodiversity and habitat suitability, environmental and external effects (fire, storms, pests, diseases, climate change, etc)
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=== Social models  ===
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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
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== Decision Support ==
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=== Definition of management interventions ===
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Define what is available for the manager to intervene in the forest: time of harvest, plantations, thinnings, reconversions...
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Existence of prescription writer, simple enumeration of all possibilities, scenario simulation , etc.
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=== Typical temporal scale of application ===
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Define the temporal scale of the application: E.g., operational and immediate level, Tactical planning (short term) and strategic level.  
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=== Types of decisions supported  ===
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*Management level
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**strategic decisions
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**administrative decisions
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**operating control decisions
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* Management function
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* planning decisions
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**organizing decisions
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**command decisions
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**control decisions
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** coordination decisions
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*decision making situation
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**unilateral
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** collegial
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**Bargaining / participative decision making
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=== Decision-making processes and models ===
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*Logic modeling
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*Operations research modeling
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**Direct approaches
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**Heuristic manipulation of simulation models
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*Business modeling
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*Simulation (with and without stochasticity)
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*Multiple criteria/ranking
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*Other
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== Output ==
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=== Types of  outputs ===
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Types of outputs produced (tables, maps, 3-D visualizations, pre-programmed summaries, etc)
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=== Spatial analysis capabilities  ===
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* integrated capabilities
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* facilitates links to GIS (wizards, etc.)
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* provides standard data import/export formats
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* 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)
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=== Abilities to address interdisciplinary, multi-scaled, and political issues  ===
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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
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== System ==
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=== System requirements  ===
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* Operating Systems: (Windows, Macintosh, Linux/UNIX, Web-based, Others)
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* Other software needed (GIS, MIP packages, etc...) 
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* Development status
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=== Architecture and major DSS components ===
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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.
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=== Usage ===
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Describe the level of use: Research level use, Industry use, Government use
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=== Computational limitations ===
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Describe the system limitations: e.g. number of management units, number of vehicles, time horizon
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=== User interface ===
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Describe the quality of user interface and the Prerequisite knowledge for using the system
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=== Documentation and support ===
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Describe the connection to Help-system and possibilities for assistance, as well as the required training and user support levels
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=== Installation ===
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* Prerequisite knowledge: Level of effort to become functional
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* Cost: (purchase price, development costs, demonstrated return on investment, cost of use, training costs, licence and maintenance costs)
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* Demo: allows the download/utilization of a trial version. If yes, where is it available and what are the trial conditions.
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==References==
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===Cited references===
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<references/>
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===External resources===
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Revision as of 18:29, 8 January 2010

General System description

SADPOF

System name: Sistema de Apoio à Decisão em Planeamento Operacional Florestal Acronym: SADPOF

Brief overview

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.

Scope of the system

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.

System origin

The SADPOF prototype has developed in 2007-2008 in the course of Portuguese funding research project, coordinated by the IT Company Link Consulting [1], with the scientific partnership of Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA) [2] and the forest business experts from Grupo Portucel Soporcel 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.

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.

Support for specific issues

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.

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.

SADPOF forest tactical/operational planning problems

Support for specific thematic areas of a problem type

  • Silvicultural
  • Product Assortment
  • Assignment and distribution
  • Development choices / land use zoning

Further developments will implement transportation planning and crews scheduling.