CONES

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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