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| PLANKAT + | PLANKAT simulates tactical 10-year plans with annual planning information. + |
| PROTEUS + | PROTEUS can be applied at all levels within the Danish Nature Agency, from the single stand to compartment, to forest, to forest district, regional and national level. + |
| PSSis + | Information System for managing the entire Pulpwood Supply Chain of an integrated pulp mill in portugal. + |
| PYL + | The application area of GISCAME is to assess the impact of land cover and land use change scenarios on planning objectives, which can be expressed by ecosystem services or other, to a higher or lower degree aggregated target figures, such as land use functions or sustainability criteria. As a result, alternative land-use scenarios can be visualized and the platform provides a visual feed-back on their impact on the balance of the selected target figures. Currently, the system is applicable for regions up to 10,000 km², which can be divided into so called “working windows” (standard: 100 km²; other dimensions can be defined individually) to support the visualization of land-use pattern and infrastructural details at mesoscale. Considering the technical background, GISCAME is a combination of a cellular automaton technology with GIS features and a multicriteria assessment framework for which standardized routines are available in the graphical user interface. + |
| Portugal-Pulpwood Supply Chain Planning in a Portuguese integrated Pulp and Paper Company + | The case study relates to the design and specification of the Celbi Pulpwood Supply Chain Information System (PSSiS) applying the Enterprise Architecture methodological approach. Accordingly, the PSSiS functional requirements emerge from the overall wood supply chain processes architecture, drawn in the course of workshop meetings with a multidisciplinary team of experts from Celbi, one of the largest Portuguese integrated pulp and paper companies. It started with the Celbi administration commitment in the project kick-off meeting. The experts involved in each wood supply chain function were identified. The several process specification workshop meetings were conducted by an EA skilled facilitator, who applies the “Port-IT method” for drawing the current situation top-down hierarchical process architecture, starting with the context diagram, the Celbi business model and the several Pulp Wood Supply Chain process flowcharts. Current problems and improvement opportunities were described. The existing systems and data repositories were also characterized. The future process architecture incorporated current problems solutions and improvement opportunities as well as state-of-the-art models and management procedures. The PSSiS process architecture report was produced and validated. It’s results were presented to Celbi administration. The information architecture and applications architecture were produced by the EA team, based on automatic activities and its required input and output data flows. Afterwards, a technological architecture and an implementation plan were proposed. The project team includes: 1 project manager (20% allocation) 1 EA expert as technical responsible (50% allocation) 1 forest analyst (100% allocation) 1 IT analyst (100% allocation) Problem structuring The Celbi Pulpwood Supply Chain Planning problem was defined in the course of the project throughout Celbi experts’ involvement in several workshop meetings following the EA approach. + |
| PractiSFM + | The PractiSFM DSS comprises three main modules which control the functionality of the application. This functionality includes production of inventory data entry forms, validation of inventory data, production of stand timber and non-timber forecasts, generation of reports and control of interactive mapping and goal analysis functions. + |
| ProgettoBosco + | 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. + |
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| RODPOST + | RODPOST is applied for optimizing the assortment distribution of single trees, based on information about the length and diameter of the log. + |
| RPF + | RPF system is completely configurable, and it allows generation of forest management alternatives that can be set by the user. The DSS has the main objective of showing detaily the whole process of the mathematics process involved. It also allows the generation of Linear Programming models and Mixed Integer Programming models. + |
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| SADPOF + | 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. + |
| SCION + | Scion is a New Zealand Crown Research Institute (CRI) that specialises in research, science and technology development for the forestry, wood product and wood-derived materials and other biomaterial sectors. Our purpose is to drive innovation and growth from these sectors to build economic value and contribute to beneficial environmental and social outcomes for New Zealand. Scion is the leading CRI in the following areas: Sustainable forest management and tree improvement. Forestry biosecurity, risk management and mitigation. Wood processing, wood-related bioenergy, waste streams and other biomaterials. Forestry and forestry-based ecosystem services to inform land-use decision making. + |
| SGIS + | The SGIS is a strategic planning system designed to aid the planner in selecting site-specific management schedules that will conform to environmental and recreational standards. + |
| SIGFOR + | SIGFOR is an information system to help the execution of the forest management planing + |
| SIMO + | SIMO has been designed so that it could be adapted to various planning proglems and scales. The flexible data model allows the computing units to be basically anything; a tree, a stand, a raster cell + |
| SIPAFIT + | It’s a forest management system that integrates statistical and sampling methods with computer and technological resources allowing an effective georeferenced description of the dendroauxometric and structural forest parameters. + |
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| SifPlan + | Flexible system designed to manage scenarios of long term forest planning with linear programming technique. + |
| Sim4Tree + | Sim4Tree is a DSS under development for the Flemish region, Belgium. It is oriented at addressing tactical or strategic problems related to provision of ecosystem services in a changing environment, at the scale of large forests or regions respectively. + |
| Spain-An agro-ecological Decision Support Systems for evaluting soil under scenarios of global change + | MicroLEIS DSS predicts the optimum land use and the best soil management practices, personalized for each soil type, in order to get the optimum biomass productivity, minimum environmental vulnerability and maximum CO2 sequestration while considering climate change scenarios all together with other important global change elements, such as land use change, desertification, agricultural extensification/intensification, etc. MicroLEIS DSS consists of three interactive data bases for soil, climate and management and 12 evaluation models that evaluate soil capability and vulnerability under current scenario and future scenario of global change. MicroLEIS DSS has over 5000 users worldwide. The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is the legal owner of the MicroLEIS DSS Technology registered under application number 200899900514357 and submitted on the 2nd of June, 2008 to the Delegate Office of the Intellectual Property Registry in Seville, Spain. The tool was developed by the Soil Evaluation Research Group under the leadership of Research Professor, Diego de la Rosa Acosta, of the Soil-Plant-Water Protection Department belonging to the CSIC’s Institute of Natural Resources and Agro-Biology in Seville. On the 2nd of February, 2009, CSIC and Evenor-Tech signed a License Contract by which CSIC grants Evenor-Tech the exclusive rights to exploit and develop the MicroLEIS System. Case study: To reverse the negative environmental impacts of agriculture, a land evaluation decision support system (DSS) known as MicroLEIS-DSS was used to design the most sustainable land use and management practices for selected Mediterranean benchmark sites in Sevilla Province, Southern Spain. The predicted results of applying the 12 agro-ecological land evaluation model constituents of MicroLEIS DSS are presented and discussed at De la Rosa, et al, 2009. The main conclusion of this paper is that using soil type information in decision-making is at the heart for sustainable use and management of agricultural land. This agro-ecological approach can be especially useful when formulating soil-specific agricultural practices to reverse environmental degradation, based on the spatial variability of soils and related resources. + |
| Spain-Sustainable Management of Mediterranean Forest: Valencian Community Case + | The Mediterranean forest is one of the most vulnerable ecosystems and is one which plays an essential role as a regulating element of water resources and climate change, as well as minimizing the advance of erosion and biodiversity loss. Nevertheless, there is a lack of studies which deal with decision making at a regional level that include stakeholders´ participation as a general framework for small scale planning, such as municipal or protected natural parks, as well as to design public policies. The objective of this case is to develop an empirical model for the sustainable forest management at a regional level of the Mediterranean forest that takes public participation into account as well as the relevant objectives, integrating both aspects to inform public policies, using several Multiple Criteria Decision Making approaches. The Valencian Community is located on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. It is an Autonomous Region of the Spanish State with its own authority for strategic forest management. Nowadays, the relevance of the Mediterranean forest is mainly due to the services that it provides and not to the traditional production of wood and cattle where its productivity is very low when compared with the Atlantic forest, characteristic of the North of Spain and Europe. The Valencian forest surface, covers almost 60% of the territory, but contributes barely to 0.03% of the GNP. The Valencian Community has a total forest area of 1,323,465 hectares and 4.5 million people, a population density higher than the European Union average. We can summarize the methodology we have used as follows. Firstly, we proposed a decision hierarchy with the sustainable management of a Mediterranean forest as the decision goal at the first level. The second level consists of social, economic, and environmental criteria, the three basic pillars of the sustainability concept as well as the multifunctional forest. Each of these criteria is divided into specific objectives in the third level with enough detail to include all aspects which are currently relevant to the Valencian region. We have completed a decision hierarchy considering several management strategies taking into account those which are being applied by public administration as well as others proposed by experts. Secondly, we identified Mediterranean forest stakeholders and we carried out a Workshop with representatives of these stakeholders to test the criteria, objectives and strategies previously proposed. In this workshop, with almost 200 participants, we carried out a round table with the stakeholder’s representatives (Administration, Professional Engineering Associations, people involved in Forest Research and Education, Hunting and Fishing Federations, Forest Owners -private owners and municipalities-, Companies and Land Stewardship, Environmentalist and Conservationist Groups), followed by a colloquium and general debate between all participants. Representatives of these groups are the ones usually invited by the Regional Government to collaborate in developing new forest programmes in the Valencian Community. Group participation with knowledgeable people is a good way to ensure that the decision hierarchy is a logical and complete structure. After that we carried out a survey amongst the stakeholders to determine their criteria and objective preferences using Saaty´s scale. Contribution of strategies to objectives was established with a later survey amongst experts. + |
| Sweden-The development and introduction of versatile DSS in Sweden + | Computerized decision support system has a long history in Sweden although until recently dominated by just a few systems (mainly the FMPP and Hugin). As forest policies and management objectives changed in the 1990's the need of a next generation of analysis and planning system was recognised of several stakeholders. Funded partly by the forestry and environmental sectors a new one, the Heureka system (Wikström et al. 2011) was developed in 2002 - 2009 in a multi-disciplinary research programme at SLU and the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden (Skogforsk) (Lämås and Eriksson 2003, Anon. 2009). It includes a number of software for different users and problem areas, the main software being StandWise, an interactive stand simulator, PlanWise for long and short term planning on forest holdings, and RegWise for regional analysis. These software are built on a common core of central models describing (individual) tree and stand development. As former systems were outdated also concerning system architecture programming languages,etc., all Heureka software are built from scratch within the above mentioned research programme (programming language C#, development environment .NET, programmers employed by SLU as well as consultants) except for a GIS-based habitat model tool. PlanWise is the one that probably will be most frequently used and the one proposed for a FORSYS case study. It has a module for strategic planning as well as a module for subsequent tactical planning. The horizon in the first case is typically 100+ years (set by the user), five year time steps. The horizon and time step in the tactical planning is set by the user, typically 2 - 5 year horizon, 1 year time step. The inclusion of the two planning problems of different time scales is motivated by basically similar problem formulation - though for different time horizons - and solving technique. So far the single spatial with neighborhood relation problem handled is opening size constraints (clear felled areas). The treatment unit are typically stands, either all stands in the analysis area (“full spatial coverage”) or a (stratified) sample of stands where the sample stands have been surveyed by sample plots. The latter approach is typically used for strategic planning on large forest holdings. It can also operate on sample plots from the National Forest Inventory (NFI). That is, it can be used on small and large forest holdings, arbitrary landscapes using the “kNN Sweden” forestry map up to regions using NFI data. The first version of the Heureka system was released in autumn 2009. PlanWise is used in research projects, teaching, in practical forestry and has also been used by authorities (County Boards for landscape analysis). The former FMPP was widely used by large Swedish forest companies. PlanWise is now replacing that system as, for example, Bergvik Skog AB in 2011 elaborated strategic plans for their 1.8 million ha holding using PlanWise. PlanWise has also showed a large potential for planning on medium sized forest holdings. Moreover, the Federation of Swedish Family Forest Owners uses the Heureka core models (by DLLs) for projection of stand development in their recently developed system for producing forest management plans. Heureka is now maintained and further developed at the Forest Sustainability Analysis unit at SLU + |
| Sweden-The history of a successfull forest DSS in Sweden + | In an international parspective the FMPP (Jonsson et al. 1993)is unique as it include software as well as hardware (innovations and development of field survey equipment) for the entire process and data flow starting with selection of a sample followed by a field inventory, calculation of initial state, projection of a set of alternavative management alternatives for each sample stand and optimization for finding preferred forest holding level management alternatives. A stratified PPS sample (stand size as the size variable, the forest holding stand register making up the sampling frame) is very efficient for large populations and thereby the approach was cost efficient for large forest holdings. In Sweden it brought about a paradimgm shift in forest management planning, maybe most of all as economics - not just cubic meters and hectars - was explicitly included in the analyses. Another corner stone were the stand - the actual treatment unit - as a sampling unit and base for the analysis contrary to individual sample plots in former systems. The system was designed and built by a small research group in the 1980's at SLU but got widely used by large forest companies in Sweden for 30 years. Large forest companies perform strategic planning procedures in 5 - 10 years interval. It was striking, though, that few persons had deep system knowledge. Moreover, in the last decade ownership and responsibilities have been unclear. Some experience from the use and application of the system is described by Jacobsson et al. (1991) The success factors - how come that it was so widely used for such a long time period? - has yet to be analyzed and documented. + |
| SØK + | SØK includes a graphical user interface where the user can simulate different stand level decisions. The user can choose between a range of tree species, site qualities, assortment distributions, update price and cost information, and calculate the resulting growth and yield as well as income, regeneration costs, and net present value. + |
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| T(ree) + | T is a forest simulator developed from biological as well as economic sub models for individual trees. T is designed to simulate alternative treatment schedules for all compartments in a planning area. + |
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