CoP ForestDSS News September 2018
This is the September 2018 newsletter of the Community of Practice (CoP) on Forest Management Decision Support Systems sent to all registered members. We would like to update you on the recent developments and future activities of the CoP:
We will organize the next annual ForestDSS Council meeting as a side event of the IUFRO Congress "Landscape Management: From Data to Decision" that takes place in Prague, Czech Republic 17th-19th of September 2018. The ForestDSS Council is constituted of those DSS experts that participate in the annual meeting of the CoP. It is a temporary group which acts as a review panel for the activity of the whole CoP. Please consider your participation in this side event, when you are travelling to Prague. The location and time for the meeting will be announced via the website.
DSS related conferences:
Several conferences were organized this year, which allowed strengthening collaboration and outreaching by the DSS community. In the conferences the members of the CoP were actively engaged as session organizers or co-organizers of the conference, which allowed to meet many colleagues:
The international conference "COMMUNICATING RISKS IN Decision Support Systems: from basic research to advance decision support tools" was held from 6 and 7th June in Solsona and 8th of June Barcelona. It focused on models, methods and decision support systems that are used by public administrators, forest owners and industry for forest management planning in a context of risk and uncertainty. The conference was co-financed by the SuFoRun international R&D project (http://suforun.ctfc.cat/) and was organized by Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC, Spain) and IUFRO unit 4.04.07. The IUFRO report provides a comprehensive overview about the outcomes of the conference - Read more …
There are already the call for papers out for conferences scheduled in 2019 (e.g. ICDSST2019, IUFRO2019) - please consider to participate in the conferences and track information about the latest call for abstracts and get to know about interesting conferences at the news and events page of the CoP. You can get the latest information via the RSS feed directly to your mail box or you follow us via twitter @dss_forest as well.
Call for papers in journals
New publications and tools
We have updated the list of publications related to Forest DSS on the Community portal including the most recent publications in the field of decision support. This is a valuable source for conducting reviews in the field of Forest Management Decision Support Systems. You are welcome to screen the list of publications and add you most recent paper as well!
We have also highlithed the outcomes of the last special issue resulted from the 125th IUFRO Anniversary Congress in Freiburg, Germany in 2017. We were able to collect manuscripts from all fields, yet specifically those involving forest management decision support systems, approaches, and models, in order to promote and advance knowledge about decision-making processes used in adaptive and sustainable forest management planning. Read more....
We have included a review about i-Tree in the CoP portal, which is a state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed software suite from the Forest Service of the USDA that provides urban and rural forestry analysis and benefits assessment tools. The LandsCare project has launched an app generator which enables landscape managers to share information on natural spaces with visitors, directly to their mobiles. In case that you would like to share your activties and your DSS related projects with the community, please provide us with a short notice, so that we are able to include the information in the portal and in the next newsletter. Please check out the website for further announcements via the news and events pages or follow the latest discussions at the community pages.
