SIMFLOR

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Name, responsible organisation and contact person

Has full name sIMfLOR – PLATFORM FOR PORTUGUESE FOREST SIMULATORS
Has acronym SIMFLOR
Has wiki contact person Margarida Tomé
Has wiki contact e-mail forchange@isa.ulisboa.pt

Software identification

Has software sIMfLOR

Description

Has description The platform for Portuguese Forest Simulators - sIMfLOR, makes available forest simulators for the Portuguese forest with user-friendly interfaces to facilitate the introduction of the information for the simulators. The platform displays stand and regional simulators, interfaces to generate required inputs and also auxiliary tools. As the platform focus on end-users, it allows visualization of the simulators outputs in default graphics which can easily be edited by users.
Has modelling scope Economical indicators, Forest indicators, Contribution to forest certification
Has temporal scale Long term (strategic), Medium term (tactical)
Has spatial context Non spatial
Has spatial scale Forest level, Regional/national level, Stand level
Has objectives dimension Multiple objectives, Single objective
Has related DSS
Has goods and services dimension Market non-wood products, Market wood products
Has decision making dimension More than one decision maker, More than one decision maker/stakeholder, Single decision maker
Has forest management goal biomass estimation, carbon sequestration, economic evaluation
Supports tree species cork oak, eucalyptus
Supports silvicultural regime even-aged, uneven-aged/natural regeneration, uneven-aged/plantation, coppice system

Concrete application

Has typical use case Forest Management Plans, UG's definition, Stand Characterization, Research
Has user profile Non-industrial private owners, forest owners associations, private legal entities (cooperatives / corporations / trusts / partnerships / condominium associations), commons, public land managers (i.e. state-owned / federal / cantonal / communal forests), national forest administration, other
Has country Portugal
Has references about examples of application Master thesis: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/5366
Has number of users <=100
Has number of real-life applications <=10
Has utilisation in education used by students
Has research project reference EFORWOOD project – Tools for Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Forestry-Wood Chain, financed by EU (FP6-2004- 518128-2); MOTIVE project – Models for Adaptive Forest Management, financed by EU (FP7-ENV-2008-1- 226544); StarTree (Grant Agreement 311919) financed by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Program for Research and Technological Development.
Has tool dissemination FcTools webpage, Workshops and Training:

http://www.isa.ulisboa.pt/cef/forchange/fctools/en/events http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/6758

ISA Forest Models Classes: http://www.forestmodels.eu/

Decision support techniques used in the DSS

Has decision support techniques SIMFLOR.Decision support techniques

Support of Knowledge Management

Has knowledge management processes SIMFLOR.Knowledge management process

Support of social participation

Has support for social participation SIMFLOR.Support of social participation

DSS development

Has DSS development SIMFLOR.Description of DSS development

Documentation

Has website http://www.isa.utl.pt/cef/forchange/fctools
Has online demo
Has manual Yes
Has technical documentation Yes
Has reference Faias, S.P., Palma, J.H.N., Barreiro, S.M., Paulo, J.A., Tomé, M. Resource communication. sIMfLOR – platform for the Portuguese forest simulators. Forest Systems 21(3): 543 – 548. http://dx.doi.org/10.5424/fs/2012213-02951

Non-wood forest products

Has NWFP support Cork

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