Habplan

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Name, responsible organisation and contact person

Has full name	Habplan
Has acronym	Habplan
Has wiki contact person	Angie Larsen-Gray and Holly Munro
Has wiki contact e-mail	gro.isacn@yarg-nesrala ; gro.isacn@ornumhURIs of the form "gro.isacn@yarg-nesrala ; gro.isacn@ornumh" are not allowed.

Software identification

Has software	Habplan.Software

Description

Has description	Assist forest managers with spatially explicit harvest scheduling and landscape management Habplan is a program developed by NCASI staff to assist forest managers with spatially explicit harvest scheduling and landscape management. Written in Java, Habplan uses a simulation approach based on the Metropolis Algorithm to generate feasible (near-optimal) harvest schedules. Users can run Habplan directly in Java or through R or RStudio using the HabplanR package. The member-only version provides NCASI members exclusive access to unlimited stand numbers during Habplan runs, options for multi-objective optimization using linear programming, and the ability to include carbon components in forestry problems.
Has modelling scope	Forest indicators, Ecological indicators
Has temporal scale	Short term (operational)
Has spatial context
Has spatial scale	Forest level
Has objectives dimension	Multiple objectives
Has related DSS
Has goods and services dimension	Market wood products
Has decision making dimension	More than one decision maker
Has forest management goal	forest inventory, landscape quality, silvicultural regime, yield prediction
Supports tree species
Supports silvicultural regime	even-aged, uneven-aged/natural regeneration, uneven-aged/plantation, user defined

Concrete application

Has typical use case
Has user profile	forest owners associations, public land managers (i.e. state-owned / federal / cantonal / communal forests)
Has country	Canada
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
Has tool dissemination

Decision support techniques used in the DSS

Has decision support techniques	Habplan.Decision support techniques

Support of Knowledge Management

Has knowledge management processes	Habplan.Knowledge management process

Support of social participation

Has support for social participation	Habplan.Support of social participation

DSS development

Has DSS development	Habplan.Description of DSS development

Documentation

Has website	https://www.ncasi.org/technical-studies/forestry/wildlife-biodiversity/habplan/
Has online demo	https://github.com/NCASI/Habplan/tree/main
Has manual	No
Has technical documentation	No
Has reference

General System description

System Name: Habplan

Brief overview

Habplan3 is a program for forest harvest and habitat scheduling.

Scope of the system

Habplan is a landscape management and harvest scheduling program. Habplan allows you to build an objective function from the supplied components that show up as checkboxes on the main Habplan form. Habplan was designed to deal with spatial objectives, but can be used for harvest scheduling where there are no spatial or adjacency issues as well. Habplan can schedule multiple districts and can therefore handle strategic and tactical planning simultaneously. Habplan selects from management regimes that the user indicates are allowable for each polygon (stand). Any polygon may have from one to hundreds of allowed regimes. A regime encompasses everything that will be done to that polygon over the planning period. Regimes can therefore be multi-period, i.e. have multiple years where actions and outputs will occur. Habplan can handle plans involving thousands of polygons and regimes over long planning horizons. The limits depend only on the capacity of your computer. Habplan attempts to find the best overall management schedule using the Metropolis Algorithm, an optimization heuristic similar to simulated annealing. Habplan also integrates a linear programming module, which enables finding optimum non-spatial schedules for small problems.

Support for specific issues

• Trade-off methods

Support for specific thematic areas of a problem type

• Silvicultural
• Policy /intervention alternatives

Capability to support decision making phases

[Intelligence, Design, Choice, Monitoring ]

Related systems

• Habgen Regime Generator: helps to structure and generate alternative growth/yield/harvest possibilities as input data for Habplan; includes links to two southern loblolly pine growth models and the ability to link in other models.
• Habread: converts data from linear program MPS format into files that Habplan can read.
• lp_solve: an integrated linear programming tool.

Data and data models

Typical spatial extent of application

• Single-owner forest

Forest data input

• Stand

Habplan can handle over 10,000 stands or polygons.

Type of information input from user (via GUI)

• Management
• Biophysical
• Economic

Models

Forest models

• Silvicultural

Decision Support

Definition of management interventions

[Define what is available for the manager to intervene in the forest: time of harvest, plantations, thinnings, reconversions...Existence of prescription writer, simple enumeration of all possibilities, scenario simulation , etc.]

Typical temporal scale of application

[Define the temporal scale of the application: E.g., operational and immediate level, Tactical planning (short term) and strategic level.]

Decision-making processes and models

• Optimization

Output

Types of outputs

• Habplan produces graphs of each flow of goods/services over time, along with lines indicating target and minimum/maximum desired levels. It also has an integrated GIS viewer, which displays management regimes chosen for each polygon and allows display of custom queries of the underlying tables.

Spatial analysis capabilities

• Integrated GIS capabilities

Abilities to address interdisciplinary, multi-scaled, and political issues

Produces coordinated results for decision makers at different scales: Habplan can schedule multiple districts and can therefore handle strategic and tactical planning simultaneously.

System

System requirements

Operating systems: Windows95, WindowsnNT, Windows2000, WindowsXP, Unix (), unixv () Java-based

Development status: Regularly distributed

Architecture and major DSS components

[Describe the basic architecture of the system in software and hardware. Desktop client-server, web based, as well as the integration with available systems. Basic data flow, focusing on retrieval of required input and propagation and implementations of decisions. Mention its modular and scalability capabilities.]

Usage

[Describe the level of use: Research level use, Industry use, Government use.]

Number of general users: 2-10

Number using for biodiversity issues: 2-10

Computational limitations

[Describe the system limitations: e.g. number of management units, number of vehicles, time horizon.]

User interface

User interface quality:

Complexity of system / user interface: Commensurate with other harvest scheduling systems.

Documentation and support

Documentation: User manual online.

Training: Five tutorials available online. Trainings are occaisionally conducted at NCASI regional meetings.

Installation

Prerequisite knowledge needed: A basic knowledge of setting up harvest scheduling problems is assumed.

Cost: Contact developer

Demo:

References

External resources

Website: http://ncasi.uml.edu/projects/habplan/

• Applications:

Loehle, C.; Van Deusen, P.; Wigley, T.B.; Mitchell, M.S.; Rutzmoser, S.H.; Aggett, J.; Beebe, J.A.; Smith, M.L. 2006. A method for landscape analysis of forestry guidelines using bird habitat models and the Habplan harvest scheduler. Forest Ecology and Management 232(1-3): 56-67.

Loehle, C.; Wigley, T.B.; Rutzmoser, S.; Gerwin, J.A.; Keyser, P.D.; Lancia, R.A.; Reynolds, C.J.; Thill, R.E.; Weih, R.; White, J., Don; Wood, P.B. 2005. Managed forest landscape structure and avian species richness in the southeastern US. Forest Ecology and Management 214(1-3): 279-293.

Mitchell, M.S.; Rutzmoser, S.H.; Wigley, T.B.; Loehle, C.; Gerwin, J.A.; Keyser, P.D.; Lancia, R.A.; Perry, R.W.; Reynolds, C.J.; Thill, R.E.; Weih, R.; White, D.; Wood, P.B. 2006. Relationships between avian richness and landscape structure at multiple scales using multiple landscapes. Forest Ecology and Management 221(1-3): 155-169.

Algorithms:

Van Deusen, Paul C. 1999. Multiple solution harvest scheduling. Silva Fennica 33(3): 207-216. [1]

Van Deusen, Paul C. 2001. Scheduling spatial arrangement and harvest simultaneously. Silva Fennica 35(1): 85-92. [2]