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== General System description ==
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System name: Computergestützte Optimierung von Nutzungseingriffen im Seilgelände (german for computer support for optimizing silvicultural and harvest operations in steep terrain)
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Acronym: CONES
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|Has full name=Computergestützte Optimierung von NutzungsEingriffen im Seilgelände (german for computer based support for optimizing silvicultural and harvest operations in steep terrain)  
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|Has acronym=CONES
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=== Brief overview ===
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|Has wiki contact person=Harald Vacik
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CONES is a computer based multiple criteria decision support tool for optimizing silvicultural and harvest operations in steep terrain with cable yarding system.
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|Has wiki contact e-mail=harald.vacik@boku.ac.at  
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{{DSS, Software identification
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[[Category:Decision support system]]
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[[Category:Austrian DSS]]
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[[Category:Spatial DSS]]
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{{DSS, Description
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|Has description=The greater part of the forested area of the Austrian Federal Forests Company (ÖBf-AG) is located in mountainous regions, which forces forest managers to find optimal solutions between silviculture and forest engineering. Selection of the optimal management strategy is quite a challenge for the people involved in the decision-finding process (forest taxator, forester, forest engineer), given the complexity of the problems that arise when considering the two fields together (spatial relation, time horizon of measures, accomplishing multiple goals, stand and site factors). Possibilities of assessing the consequences of a given extraction strategy in advance are fairly limited. This bears the risk that because of the complexity of the decision-finding process only sub-optimal solutions are chosen. Therefore a practicable and easy to use spatial decision support system (SDSS) was developed for the people invnvolved in the decision making process at the ÖBf-AG.  
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[[Category:Spatial DSS]]
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|Has modelling scope=Economical indicators, Forest indicators, Ecological indicators
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[[Category:Silviculture model]]
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|Has temporal scale=Short term (operational)
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[[Category:Stand level]]
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|Has spatial context=Spatial with neighbourhood interrelations
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[[Category:Harvesting system]]
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|Has spatial scale=Stand level
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[[Category:Government use]]
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|Has objectives dimension=Multiple objectives
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[[Category:Operational planning]]
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|Has related DSS=CONES
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[[Category:Tactical planning]]
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|Has goods and services dimension=Market wood products
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[[Category:Windows Client OS]]
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|Has decision making dimension=More than one decision maker/stakeholder
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|Has forest management goal=silvicultural regime, species selection, multi-functional
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[[Image:CONES_screenshot.jpg|thumb|400px|A screenshot from CONES v1.0]]
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|Supports tree species=Norway Spruce, Europ. Larch, Scots Pine, Silver Fir, Europ. Beech, Maple, Birch, Sycamore
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|Supports silvicultural regime=even-aged, uneven-aged/natural regeneration
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{{DSS, Concrete application
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=== Scope of the system ===
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|Has typical use case=allows the user to evaluate different treatment alternatives as a combination of harvest and forest regeneration strategies in order to select the pareto-optimal solution for a given situation.  
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CONES is a spatial decision support system based on ArcGIS which assists the forester on site in compromising silvicultural and harvest operations. It allows the user to evaluate different treatment alternatives as a combination of harvest and forest regeneration strategies in order to select the pareto-optimal solution for a given situation. 
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|Has user profile=Non-industrial private owners, national forest administration
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|Has country=Austria
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Cable yarding system in steep terrains requires the consideration of three previous questions:
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|Has references about examples of application=VACIK H. (2005): Development and application of Decision Support Systems for silvicultural Planning and Decision making. International Workshop on “Success and Failure of Decision Support Systems for Integrated Water Resource Management”, 06-07. October 2005, Venice, Italy. VACIK H., LEXER M.J., PALMETZHOFER D., STAMPFER K., LIMBECK-LILIENAU B. (2004): Application of the spatial decision support system CONES for the regeneration planning in mountain forests. Cable Yarding Suitable for Sustainable Forest Management, 23. sept. 2004, Idrija, Slovenia
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* What is the best silvicultural strategy? (e.g., type and density of entry)
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|Has number of users=<=10
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* Which is the best suitable harvesting system?
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|Has number of real-life applications=<=30
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* What is the optimal location of the skyline trails?
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|Has utilisation in education=used by students
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Cable yarding system needs to consider high timber volumes in order to cover installation costs. In this system, close to nature forestry involving single tree or group selection systems is sometimes economically unsustainable, leading to strip cuts and clear cuts, which involve lot of ecology, multipurpose forestry, regeneration, natural hazards, and soil erosion problems.
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|Has research project reference=https://forschung.boku.ac.at/fis/suchen.projekt_uebersicht?sprache_in=en&menue_id_in=300&id_in=3423
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=== System origin ===
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* It was developed during 2001-2004 by the [http://www.wabo.boku.ac.at/waldbau.html?&L=1 Institute of Silviculture] and the [http://www.wabo.boku.ac.at/508.html?&L=1 Institute of Forest Engineering] at the [http://www.boku.ac.at/home.html?&L=1 University of Natural Sciences and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)].
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|Has decision support techniques=CONES.Decision support techniques
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* The greater part of the forested area of the [http://www.oebf.at Austrian Federal Forests Company (ÖBf-AG)] is located in mountainous regions, which forces forest managers to find optimal solutions between silviculture and forest engineering. Selection of the optimal management strategy is quite a challenge for the people involved in the decision-finding process (forest taxator, forester, forest engineer), given the complexity of the problems that arise when considering the two fields together (spatial relation, time horizon of measures, accomplishing multiple goals, stand and site factors). Possibilities of assessing the consequences of a given extraction strategy in advance are fairly limited. This bears the risk that because of the complexity of the decision-finding process only sub-optimal solutions are chosen. Schematic or intuitive solutions provide no desirable alternatives for the ÖBf AG. Therefore a practicable and easy to use spatial decision support system (SDSS) was developed for the people involved in the decision making process at the ÖBf-AG.  
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* is it a non commercial product
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* The DSS CONES v1.0 is currently being tested by the Austrian Federal Forests Company in the planning of the use of cable yarding system, and was recently evaluated as part of a thesis <ref>[http://www.wabo.boku.ac.at/cones.html CONES website]</ref>.
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=== Support for specific issues  ===
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CONES is a spatial decision support system based on ArcGIS aimed to assist the forester on site in compromising silvicultural and harvest operations.
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Within the GIS environment the user provides basic input data about the current stand and site conditions, designs silvicultural treatment options and selects harvesting systems. The user is supported by various wizards to define the kind of treatment, the number of entries, the planning horizon or individual settings like labor costs or timber prices. Additional information (e.g. location of skyline corridors,  uphill/ downhill extraction) about the harvesting system has to be provided. Expected outcomes of alternative actions are estimated by different models.
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=== Support for specific thematic areas of a problem type  ===
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* Silvicultural
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|Has website=http://www.wabo.boku.ac.at/cones.html
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* Conservation
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* Restoration
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* Transportation
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|Has reference=https://forschung.boku.ac.at/fis/suchen.projekt_uebersicht?sprache_in=en&menue_id_in=300&id_in=3423
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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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* Intelligence:
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(Click [[Simon's decision making model|here]] to see a more detailed explanation)
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=== Related systems  ===
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* [[DSD]]
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== Data and data models ==
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=== Typical spatial extent of application  ===
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Stand level.
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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.... </div>
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== Models ==
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=== Forest models ===
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* For the individual sub-processes (felling, limbing and transporting) from logging on steep slopes productivity models are used.
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* The stand growth simulator PROGNAUS describes the growth and mortality for the species of the planning unit in the different diameter classes using growth functions.
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* To estimate the damage risk qualitative response models are used, able to describe the probability for the occurrence of an event.
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== Decision Support ==
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=== Definition of management interventions ===
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CONES v1.0 allows comparison of silvicultural system analytical procedures before making a decision for the treatment procedure. It makes possible for the forest manager and the forestry technicians to work together in order to find solutions that not only optimize the forestry benefits or forest technology availabe, but take into account both aspects under a spatial and temporal dimension.
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=== Typical temporal scale of application ===
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Operational and tactical 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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**control decisions
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**unilateral
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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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*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: Microsoft Windows OS
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* Other software needed: The decision support tool is implemented using available software packages such as ArcView and MS Access.
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* Development status: CONES v1.0 is currently available
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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. </div>
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=== Usage ===
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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 </div>
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=== Documentation and support ===
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Information about CONES can be found at the [http://www.wabo.boku.ac.at/cones.html CONES website], where e-mail directions of the responsible researchers are given.  
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=== Installation ===
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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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==References==
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===Cited references===
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===External resources===
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* VACIK H. (2005): ''Development and application of Decision Support Systems for silvicultural Planning and Decision making''. International Workshop on “Success and Failure of Decision Support Systems for Integrated Water Resource Management”, 06-07. October 2005, Venice, Italy. ([http://www.feem-web.it/transcat_forum/download.php?id=93 Fulltext available]) (Oral Communication)
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* VACIK H., LEXER M.J., PALMETZHOFER D., STAMPFER K., LIMBECK-LILIENAU B. (2004): ''Application of the spatial decision support system CONES for the regeneration planning in mountain forests''. Cable Yarding Suitable for Sustainable Forest Management, 23. sept. 2004, Idrija, Slovenia ([http://petelin.gozdis.si/zicnice/fin/pdf_articles/vacik.pdf Fulltext available]) (Oral Communication)
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Name, responsible organisation and contact person

Has full name Computergestützte Optimierung von NutzungsEingriffen im Seilgelände (german for computer based support for optimizing silvicultural and harvest operations in steep terrain)
Has acronym CONES
Has wiki contact person Harald Vacik
Has wiki contact e-mail harald.vacik@boku.ac.at

Software identification

Has software CONES.Software

Description

Has description The greater part of the forested area of the Austrian Federal Forests Company (ÖBf-AG) is located in mountainous regions, which forces forest managers to find optimal solutions between silviculture and forest engineering. Selection of the optimal management strategy is quite a challenge for the people involved in the decision-finding process (forest taxator, forester, forest engineer), given the complexity of the problems that arise when considering the two fields together (spatial relation, time horizon of measures, accomplishing multiple goals, stand and site factors). Possibilities of assessing the consequences of a given extraction strategy in advance are fairly limited. This bears the risk that because of the complexity of the decision-finding process only sub-optimal solutions are chosen. Therefore a practicable and easy to use spatial decision support system (SDSS) was developed for the people invnvolved in the decision making process at the ÖBf-AG.
Has modelling scope Economical indicators, Forest indicators, Ecological indicators
Has temporal scale Short term (operational)
Has spatial context Spatial with neighbourhood interrelations
Has spatial scale Stand level
Has objectives dimension Multiple objectives
Has related DSS CONES
Has goods and services dimension Market wood products
Has decision making dimension More than one decision maker/stakeholder
Has forest management goal silvicultural regime, species selection, multi-functional
Supports tree species Norway Spruce, Europ. Larch, Scots Pine, Silver Fir, Europ. Beech, Maple, Birch, Sycamore
Supports silvicultural regime even-aged, uneven-aged/natural regeneration

Concrete application

Has typical use case allows the user to evaluate different treatment alternatives as a combination of harvest and forest regeneration strategies in order to select the pareto-optimal solution for a given situation.
Has user profile Non-industrial private owners, national forest administration
Has country Austria
Has references about examples of application VACIK H. (2005): Development and application of Decision Support Systems for silvicultural Planning and Decision making. International Workshop on “Success and Failure of Decision Support Systems for Integrated Water Resource Management”, 06-07. October 2005, Venice, Italy. VACIK H., LEXER M.J., PALMETZHOFER D., STAMPFER K., LIMBECK-LILIENAU B. (2004): Application of the spatial decision support system CONES for the regeneration planning in mountain forests. Cable Yarding Suitable for Sustainable Forest Management, 23. sept. 2004, Idrija, Slovenia
Has number of users <=10
Has number of real-life applications <=30
Has utilisation in education used by students
Has research project reference https://forschung.boku.ac.at/fis/suchen.projekt_uebersicht?sprache_in=en&menue_id_in=300&id_in=3423
Has tool dissemination

Decision support techniques used in the DSS

Has decision support techniques CONES.Decision support techniques

Support of Knowledge Management

Has knowledge management processes CONES.Knowledge management process

Support of social participation

Has support for social participation CONES.Support of social participation

DSS development

Has DSS development CONES.Description of DSS development

Documentation

Has website http://www.wabo.boku.ac.at/cones.html
Has online demo
Has manual Yes
Has technical documentation Yes
Has reference https://forschung.boku.ac.at/fis/suchen.projekt_uebersicht?sprache_in=en&menue_id_in=300&id_in=3423
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