SADfLOR web-based

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Has flag	N/A

Name, responsible organisation and contact person

Has full name	SADfLOR - A Web-Based Forest and Natural Resources Decision Support System
Has acronym	SADfLOR web-based
Has wiki contact person	Jose Guilherme Borges
Has wiki contact e-mail	joseborges@isa.ulisboa.pt

Software identification

Has software	SADfLOR is a web-based tool having for this reason no software requirements.

Description

Has description	SADfLOR is a complete decision support system (DSS) that integrates an information system, a supply driven stand level forest simulator and several optimization tools to support forest management planning.
Has modelling scope	Economical indicators, Forest indicators, Social indicators, Climate change, Contribution to forest certification
Has temporal scale	Long term (strategic)
Has spatial context	Non spatial
Has spatial scale	Forest level, Regional/national level, Stand level
Has objectives dimension	Multiple objectives
Has related DSS	SADPOF
Has goods and services dimension	Market non-wood products, Market wood products
Has decision making dimension	More than one decision maker/stakeholder, Single decision maker
Has forest management goal	biomass estimation, carbon sequestration, climate change impact, economic evaluation, silvicultural regime, species selection, yield prediction, wood supply planning
Supports tree species	Eucalyptus, Maritime pine, Stone pine
Supports silvicultural regime	even-aged, uneven-aged/natural regeneration, uneven-aged/plantation, coppice system

Concrete application

Has typical use case	Forest Management Plans, 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
Has number of users	N/A
Has number of real-life applications	N/A
Has utilisation in education	N/A
Has research project reference	INTEGRAL: Future-oriented Integrated Management of European Forest Landscapes. MOTIVE: Models for Adaptive Forest Management. AFORE: Forest Biorefineries – added value from chemicals and polymers by new integrated separation, fractionation and upgrading technologies. EFORWOOD: Tools for Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Forestry-Wood Chain. SADRI: Models and Decision Support Systems for Addressing Risk and Uncertainty in Forest Planning (SADRI) - PTDC/AGR-FOR/4526/2012 - funded by the Port
Has tool dissemination	Decision Support System Workshop and ForestDSS Community of Practice: http://forestdss.org/CoP/community/successful-meeting-cop-lisbon

Decision support techniques used in the DSS

Has decision support techniques	SADfLOR web-based.Decision support techniques

Support of Knowledge Management

Has knowledge management processes	SADfLOR web-based.Knowledge management process

Support of social participation

Has support for social participation	SADfLOR web-based.Support of social participation

DSS development

Has DSS development	SADfLOR web-based.Description of DSS development

Documentation

Has website
Has online demo
Has manual	Yes
Has technical documentation	Yes
Has reference	Barreiro, S., J. Garcia-Gonzalo, J. G. Borges, M. Tomé and S.Marques 2013. SADfLOR Tutorial. A Web-based Forest and Natural Resources Decision Support System (Work in progress), FORCHANGE, ISA, Lisboa, 39 p. Miragaia, C. 1998 – "Manual de INfLOR" Documento Nº 1 do Grupo de Economia e Gestão de Recursos Florestais (GEGREF) do Departamento de Engenharia Florestal. Instituto Superior de Agronomia. Lisboa

Non-wood forest products

Has NWFP support	Pine cones

SADfLOR is a complete decision support system (DSS) that integrates an information system, a supply driven stand level forest simulator and several optimization tools to support forest management planning: a) A forest management database - INfLOR - that characterizes the forest areas to be considered for simulation (Miragaia 1998). The set of forest stands to be simulated is defined through an implicit query triggered as the study area is selected. b) A platform for the definition of the forest management alternatives/prescriptions for the main tree species in Portugal that represent the base for the simulation of forest management alternatives. c) A prescription driven stand level forest simulator – StandSim – that integrates a set of different forest growth and yield models for the most important Portuguese tree species allowing the growth simulation under different user-defined management scenarios (Tomé et al 2013). Simulation results are of two types: - Detailed characterization of stands’ growth and yield for the planning horizon; - Essential information required to run the decision models. d) An optimization module that encapsulates exact mathematical techniques (Mixed Integer programming, Linear Programing and Goal programming) and Heuristics. The model generator reads outputs from the stand simulator (e.g. harvest volumes) and financial data from the management information module (i.e. interest rate, prices and costs) and creates the coefficients for all needed equations in the problem formulation. Interface with the user is provided through input forms that allow for the specification of the objective function and constraints that define the management problem. Links with external solvers (i.e. commercial software CPLEX and the freeware GLPK) are programmed in the optimisation module in order to solve the mathematical models. Alternatively the system may use a metaheuristic to solve the problem without need to use any external solver. e) A solution report module allows the user to analyse results in different formats (e.g. tables, graphs and maps). f) A graphical user interface to support and guide the access to all modules of the DSS.