Difference between revisions of "SADMVMC"

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General System description

System name: Sistema de apoio á decisión para montes veciñais en man común

Acronym: SADMVMC

Brief overview

This is a web application that enables the simulation and comparison of silviculture alternatives in the Galician (northwestern Spain) common private property land, providing a management schedule and an estimated budget.

Scope of the system

The SADMVMC try to help landowners when considering the different afforestation options of their properties, providing a management schedule based on the plot features and the management objectives. It includes technical-economic models developed for the most of the species normally used in Galician woodlands, as:

Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.)
Monterey pine (Pinus radiata D.Don)
Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.)
Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco)
Sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.)
Pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.)
Northern red oak (Quercus rubra L.)
Shining gum (Eucalyptus nitens H.Deane & Maiden)

The user is enabled to provide their plot data using both a WebGIS or a GUI, and then choosing some of the land and management features proposed, the possible management alternatives and their econcomic evaluation are presented.

System origin

This DSS is being developed by the research group GI-1716 at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, during the current year.

It is not still published, but it is going to be a free-access web-tool.

Support for specific thematic areas of a problem type

Silvicultural
Development choices / land use zoning
Policy/intervention alternatives

Capability to support decision making phases

(NOTE I do not quite know what to do with this, as I do not understand it myself, although it seems related to system use)

Intelligence (give a complete budget for each management option)
Design (+ explicit description of the support given by the DSS)
Choice (allows user to choose between different species and management options)
Monitor (+ explicit description of the support given by the DSS)

Data and data models

Typical spatial extent of application

Land ownership defined.

Type of information input from user (via GUI)

Plot and management features (area, slope, actual vegetation, wild cattle appearance,...).

Models

Forest models

Yield and economic yield models.

Decision Support

Definition of management interventions

The manager is able to define some of the management variables, like time of harvest, plantations, thinnings..., always under site and species constraints.

Typical temporal scale of application

The application level is both operational and tactical planning.

Types of decisions supported

Management level
- strategic decisions
- administrative decisions
- operating control decisions
Management function
planning decisions
- organizing decisions
- command decisions
- control decisions
- coordination decisions
decision making situation
- unilateral
- collegial
- Bargaining / participative decision making

Decision-making processes and models

Logic modeling
Operations research modeling
Business modeling
Simulation
Multiple criteria decision

Output

Types of outputs

The application provides scheduling summaries, tables and a visualization tool.

System

System requirements

Operating Systems: multi-platform.
Other software needed: any web browser (Firefox, Opera, Konqueror, Internet Explorer...).
Development status: in development.

Architecture and major DSS components

Desktop client-server, web based.

Usage

Landowner usage.

User interface

The interface tries to be friendly and attractive, non requiring any specific knowledge to understand the system.

Installation

Prerequisite knowledge: user only has to know the use of a web browser.
Cost: free.

References

Cited references

External resources

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 === Brief overview ===
-This is a web application that enables the simulation and comparison of silviculture alternatives in the Galician (North-Western Spain) common private property land, providing a management schedule and an estimated budget.
+This is a web application that enables the simulation and comparison of silviculture alternatives in the Galician (northwestern Spain) common private property land, providing a management schedule and an estimated budget.
 __TOC__
 === Scope of the system ===
-* tool encourages decision maker to discover new problems or opportunities by exposing to new information or results
+The SADMVMC try to help landowners when considering the different afforestation options of their properties, providing a management schedule based on the plot features and the management objectives. It includes technical-economic models developed for the most of the species normally used in Galician woodlands, as:
-* tool helps decision makers in recognizing upcoming problems for which solutions have been developed previously
+* Maritime pine (''Pinus pinaster'' Ait.)
-* tool allows decision maker to actively create new knowledge when faced with a new problem and to develop novel solutions
+* Monterey pine (''Pinus radiata'' D.Don)
-* tool allows decision maker to capture knowledge, making it available to decision makers who are seeking solutions from previously solved problems
+* Scots pine (''Pinus sylvestris'' L.)
+* Douglas fir (''Pseudotsuga menziesii'' (Mirb.) Franco)
+* Sweet chestnut (''Castanea sativa'' Mill.)
+* Pedunculate oak (''Quercus robur'' L.)
+* Northern red oak (''Quercus rubra'' L.)
+* Shining gum (''Eucalyptus nitens'' H.Deane & Maiden)
+The user is enabled to provide their plot data using both a WebGIS or a GUI, and then choosing some of the land and management features proposed, the possible management alternatives and their econcomic evaluation are presented.
+[[Category: Silviculture_models]]
+[[Category: Economic_evaluation]]
 === System origin ===
-* Who and when was it developed
+This DSS is being developed by the research group GI-1716 at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, during the current year.
-* is it a commercial product
-* does it have real-life application cases
-=== Support for specific issues  ===
+It is not still published, but it is going to be a free-access web-tool.
-Is the system designed to take into account specific uses? E.g. guidance on ways to characterize biodiversity, economic-biodiversity tradeoff analysis methods, risk assessment methods, landscape analysis methods, timber harvest effects, climate change effects, biological effects (pests, pathogens, invasives), fire,...
 === Support for specific thematic areas of a problem type  ===
 * Silvicultural
-* Certification
-* Conservation
-* Restoration
-* Transportation
 * Development choices / land use zoning
 * Policy/intervention alternatives
-* Sustainability impact assessment (SIA)
 === Capability to support decision making phases   ===
 ''(NOTE I do not quite know what to do with this, as I do not understand it myself, although it seems related to system use)''
-* Intelligence (+ explicit description of the support given by the DSS)
+* Intelligence (give a complete budget for each management option)
 * Design (+ explicit description of the support given by the DSS)
-* Choice (+ explicit description of the support given by the DSS)
+* Choice (allows user to choose between different species and management options)
 * Monitor (+ explicit description of the support given by the DSS)
-=== Related systems  ===
-Describe (and/or link to) other systems related
 == Data and data models ==
 === Typical spatial extent of application  ===
-Define the scale of use for the application (user defined, regional, multi-owner forest single ownership forest, Multiple scale interaction)
+Land ownership defined.
-=== Forest data input  ===
+=== Type of information input from user (via GUI) ===
-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
+Plot and management features (area, slope, actual vegetation, wild cattle appearance,...).
-If necessary describe other types of required data (economic, social)
-=== Type of information input from user (via GUI) ===
-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....
 == Models ==
 === Forest models ===
-Growth, Yield, Carbon, Wood quality, biodiversity and habitat suitability, environmental and external effects (fire, storms, pests, diseases, climate change, etc)
+Yield and economic yield models.
-=== Social models  ===
-historical and cultural values of sites, values due to peace and quiet, esthetic values, values due to recreational activities, ethical values): E. g. Recreation, Health, Game
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 === Definition of management interventions ===
-Define what is available for the manager to intervene in the forest: time of harvest, plantations, thinnings, reconversions...
+The manager is able to define some of the management variables, like time of harvest, plantations, thinnings..., always under site and species constraints.
-Existence of prescription writer, simple enumeration of all possibilities, scenario simulation , etc.
 === Typical temporal scale of application ===
-Define the temporal scale of the application: E.g., operational and immediate level, Tactical planning (short term) and strategic level.
+The application level is both operational and tactical planning.
 === Types of decisions supported  ===
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 *Logic modeling
 *Operations research modeling
-**Direct approaches
-**Heuristic manipulation of simulation models
 *Business modeling
-*Simulation (with and without stochasticity)
+*Simulation
-*Multiple criteria/ranking
+*Multiple criteria decision
-*Other
 == Output ==
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 === Types of  outputs ===
-Types of outputs produced (tables, maps, 3-D visualizations, pre-programmed summaries, etc)
+The application provides scheduling summaries, tables and a visualization tool.
-=== Spatial analysis capabilities  ===
-* integrated capabilities
-* facilitates links to GIS (wizards, etc.)
-* provides standard data import/export formats
-* 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)
-=== Abilities to address interdisciplinary, multi-scaled, and political issues  ===
-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
 == System ==
 === System requirements  ===
-* Operating Systems: (Windows, Macintosh, Linux/UNIX, Web-based, Others)
+* Operating Systems: multi-platform.
-* Other software needed (GIS, MIP packages, etc...)
+* Other software needed: any web browser (Firefox, Opera, Konqueror, Internet Explorer...).
-* Development status
+* Development status: in development.
 === Architecture and major DSS components ===
-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.
+Desktop client-server, web based.
 === Usage ===
-Describe the level of use: Research level use, Industry use, Government use
+Landowner usage.
-=== Computational limitations ===
-Describe the system limitations: e.g. number of management units, number of vehicles, time horizon
 === User interface ===
-Describe the quality of user interface and the Prerequisite knowledge for using the system
+The interface tries to be friendly and attractive, non requiring any specific knowledge to understand the system.
-=== Documentation and support ===
-Describe the connection to Help-system and possibilities for assistance, as well as the required training and user support levels
 === Installation ===
-* Prerequisite knowledge: Level of effort to become functional
+* Prerequisite knowledge: user only has to know the use of a web browser.
-* Cost: (purchase price, development costs, demonstrated return on investment, cost of use, training costs, licence and maintenance costs)
+* Cost: free.
-* Demo: allows the download/utilization of a trial version. If yes, where is it available and what are the trial conditions.
 ==References==