| Has description
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Marteloscopes with I+ software allows forest practitioners, decision makers, scientists to discuss management strategies and consequences on site.
Forests are asked to provide a multitude of ecosystem services and forest managers need to ensure in their daily work these are well balanced. This is a demanding task and requires best available knowledge and continuous training. To serve such needs the software package ‘I+’ was developed jointly by research and software developers and tested by practitioners. It runs on handheld devices and is used for training exercises in designated forest sites, so called marteloscopes. I+ allows to perform virtual tree selections and directly displays the outcomes of silvicultural interventions on site. Having intervention results readily available stimulatesfactbased interaction and discussion among exercise participants. The software is currently tailored to address impacts and trade-offs of biodiversity conservation in commercially managed forests.
Due to its modular design, it can easily be expanded to cover other highly relevant forest management topics such as carbon balancing. Through data export functions, exercise results can be utilized in more sophisticated tools such as forest growth simulators. The paper presents the key parameters used for training and the corresponding software solution. The I+ software components are then illustrated along examples. The software is freely available for download at the ‘Iplus’ website.
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| Has modelling scope
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Forest indicators, Ecological indicators
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| Has temporal scale
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| Has spatial context
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| Has spatial scale
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Forest 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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| Has goods and services dimension
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Market wood products, Non-market services
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| Has decision making dimension
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Single decision maker
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| Has forest management goal
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carbon sequestration, conservation, silvicultural regime, wood supply planning, multi-functional, user defined
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| Supports tree species
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| Supports silvicultural regime
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even-aged, uneven-aged/natural regeneration, uneven-aged/plantation, user defined
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