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Workshop - Reconciling agriculture and environment by the open-access GeoSpatialDecision Support System LANDSUPPORT

You are invited to participate in the workshop “Reconciling agriculture and environment by the open-access GeoSpatial Decision Support System LANDSUPPORT” that will be held online on the 18th September 2020 (2 pm- 4pm CET) at the iEMSs 2020 conference.

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Workshop Individual/Agent-Based-Modelling

Agent/Individual-based modelling (ABM, IBM) techniques have emerged as crucial tools for analysing and understanding self-organisation processes in various ecosystems as well as in social sciences. ABM/IBM is a methodology for relating the micro-level behaviour to the macro- or system-level behaviour and shares certain similarities with game theory. In combination with new methods of spatial statistics ABM/IBM have become an intriguing method for studying spatio-temporal patterns among other things.

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Workshop on Decision Making

You are invited to participate to the workshop on Decision Making organised in Toulouse, Manufacture des Tabacs, Amphi MBIII, April 24th - 26th 2017.
The registration is free but mandatory. For any registration and information please visit http://www.cimi.univ-toulouse.fr/aald/en/workshop-decision-making

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Closing Workshop FOCUS

The FOCUS (Advances in FOrestry Control and aUtomation Systems in Europe) project aims to advance the forestry supply chain through the development of solutions that combine control, monitoring and planning. Making use of advanced sensors technologies to support the management of the operations in the forest sector.

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Models and decision support tools for integrated forest policy development under global change

03
Mar
03.03.2016 |
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The seminar ‘Models and decision support tools for integrated forest policy development under global change’ took place in February 18, 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal. It was organized by the School of Agriculture of the University of Lisbon and the Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia and it was sponsored by IUFRO Unit 4.04.04. This seminar was organized in the framework of the project ‘SuFoRun’, supported by a Marie Skodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) within the H2020 work programme (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015) under grant agreement No 691149. SuFoRun focuses on forestry and climate change interactions, including the development of adaptive forest management tools.

The seminar involved 45 participants from 14 countries in Europe, Africa, America and Asia. Its program encompassed presentations from research institutions in the SuFoRUn consortium which includes the Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia and the Technical University of Madrid in Spain, the School of Agriculture of the University of Lisbon in Portugal, the University of Eastern Finland, the Swedish University of Life Sciences, the University of Freiburg in Germany, the Pontifica Catholic University of Chile an the University of Chile, the Pacific Northwest Research Station, the University of Washington and the Pennsylvania State University in the USA, the University of S. Paulo in Brazil and the Centro agronómico tropical de investigación y enseñanza in Costa Rica. The first part of the seminar focused on the characterization of the state-of-the-art in forest ecosystem management in SuFoRun partner institutions while the second part addressed specific ongoing research and potential synergies with the exchange program. 

The seminar fulfilled its objectives. It provided a forum that facilitated the exchange needed to advance the knowledge about forest ecosystem management. It worked well as a venue to convey to students and early stage researchers the open problems that require further study and research in the key areas to be addressed by this exchange program. These encompass a) forest modeling to acquire knowledge about forest ecosystem dynamics and disturbance (biotic and abiotic) regimes, b) development of forest management planning methods to estimate ecosystem services supply, to assess risks and to produce trade-off information and c) development of intelligent ecosystem management decision support systems as technological platforms needed to implement models and methods and comunicate information to stakeholders. A workshop and a conference are to be organized in the USA in 2017 to further strengthen research collaboration in these scientific areas and to promote dissemination activities. 

Models and decision SUpport tools for integrated FOrest policy development under global change

We invite you to participate in the Open Seminar 'Models and decision SUpport tools for integrated FOrest policy development under global change',  to be held in Lisbon, February 18.

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Decision Support Systems for Forestry Purposes

17
Jun
06.17.2015 |
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From 13 to 15 of April 2015, a conference was held in Łagów, Poland on decision support systems in forest management. The conference was jointly organized by IUFRO 4.02.05, the Polish Forest Service and the Forest Research Institute under the patronage of the Forest Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The three-day event was attended by over 90 participants from Austria, Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and Sweden. During the first day, participants had the opportunity to listen to 12 presentations prepared by scientists and practitioners. During the next two days, the participants (divided into small groups) took part in a workshop on practical applications of the decision making support solutions used in different countries. The participants highly appreciated the opportunity to discuss their ideas and visions of supporting the decision making systems in different countries.

Seminar on DSS Tools Implementation into Forest Management Practice

14
Jan
01.14.2015 |
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The Technical University in Zvolen organized jointly with University of Lisbon on December the 2nd, 2014 in the framework of the bilateral project "Development of modules and interfaces for forestry decision support systems" a workshop in Zvolen, Slovakia.

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The purpose of the seminar was to introduce the recent developments in the field of decision support to the practioners in Slovakia. You can find the presentations given at the workshop here:

Harald Vacik, BOKU Vienna: DSS in forest managementactual tendencies in development and results of implementation in Austria

Jan Tucek, TUZVO: Slovak Forestry Needs and Situation in DSS Implementation

Vladimir Buschenkov, UE Evora: Method of Interactive Decision Maps

Susete Marques, LTU Lisbon: Portuguese DSS Tools for Forest Management

Robert Sedmak, TUZVO and Vladimir Buschenkov UE Evora: Results for Case Study Solution Employing Sibyla Simulator and IDM Method

Robert Marusak and Dr. Jan Kaspar, CUA Prag: The OPTIMAL –Tool for Harvest Scheduling in Czech and Slovak Republic

Peter Surovy, CUA Prag: Theoretical Optimization Approaches in Forest Management Case Studies

A discussion about the tools and approaches presented helped to understand the applicability of the tools and their relevance in forest management.

Some impressions on the workshop can be found here