| Has description
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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.
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| Has modelling scope
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Economical indicators, Forest indicators, Ecological indicators
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| Has temporal scale
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Short term (operational)
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| Has spatial context
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Spatial with neighbourhood interrelations
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| Has spatial scale
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Stand level
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| Has objectives dimension
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Multiple objectives
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| Has related DSS
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CONES
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| Has goods and services dimension
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Market wood products
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| Has decision making dimension
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More than one decision maker/stakeholder
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| Has forest management goal
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silvicultural regime, species selection, multi-functional
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| Supports tree species
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Norway Spruce, Europ. Larch, Scots Pine, Silver Fir, Europ. Beech, Maple, Birch, Sycamore
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| Supports silvicultural regime
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even-aged, uneven-aged/natural regeneration
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| Has typical use case
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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.
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| Has user profile
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Non-industrial private owners, national forest administration
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| Has country
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Austria
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| Has references about examples of application
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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
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| Has number of users
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<=10
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| Has number of real-life applications
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<=30
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| Has utilisation in education
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used by students
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| Has research project reference
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https://forschung.boku.ac.at/fis/suchen.projekt_uebersicht?sprache_in=en&menue_id_in=300&id_in=3423
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| Has tool dissemination
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