MELA
General System description
System name:
Acronym: MELA
Brief overview
MELA is an operational decision support system developed and maintained by Metla (Finnish Forest Research Institute) based on its forest research.
Contents
Scope of the system
MELA is a general analysis tool for forest management planning. It can be used e.g. in the computational updating of forest resource data and in the search of effective or optimal production programs for forest areas (a property or a company). When linked with end-user applications for forest planning, the MELA software supports interactive planning. For example, the current MELA version provides more diversified and detailed information for taking into account errors and risk. Furthermore, MELA allows flexible combinations of various data sources and models to improve cost-efficiency and effectiveness of forest inventory and planning.
System origin
- It was developed by Metla researchers.
- how was it developed
- is it a commercial product
- does it have real-life application cases
