Heureka

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Name, responsible organisation and contact person

Has full name	Heureka PlanWise
Has acronym	Heureka PlanWise
Has wiki contact person	Tomas Lämås; Eva-Maria Nordström; Karin Öhman; Hampus Holmström
Has wiki contact e-mail	tomas.lamas@slu.se; : eva-maria.nordstrom@slu.se; karin.ohman@slu.se; : hampus.holmstrom@slu.seURIs of the form "tomas.lamas@slu.se; : eva-maria.nordstrom@slu.se; karin.ohman@slu.se; : hampus.holmstrom@slu.se" are not allowed.

Software identification

Has software	Heureka.Software

Description

Has description	Heureka is a system for long and medium term forestry planning and scenario analysis. It consists of several applications: (1) StandWise for stand-level management analysis, (2) PlanWise for forest-level planning, (3) RegWise for regional scenario analysis, (4) PlanEval for multi-criteria deciion analysis to rank plans created in PlanWise and RegWise with one pr more stakeholders, and (5) Habitat Prognosis, a AcGIS-abased application for habitat suitability analysis of a given plan. The system covers the whole decision support process from data inventory to tools for selecting among plan alternatives with multi-criteria decision making techniques. The system is designed for both large-scale and small-scale forestry. The utilities handled today are timber and bio-fuel production, carbon sequestration, biodiversity, and recreation.
Has modelling scope	Economical indicators, Forest indicators, Ecological indicators, Climate change
Has temporal scale	Long term (strategic), Medium term (tactical)
Has spatial context	Spatial with no neighbourhood interrelations
Has spatial scale	Forest level
Has objectives dimension	Multiple objectives
Has related DSS	Heureka RegWise
Has goods and services dimension	Market wood products, Non-market services
Has decision making dimension	Single decision maker
Has forest management goal	biomass estimation, carbon sequestration, conservation, economic evaluation, multi-functional
Supports tree species	Several Scandinavian
Supports silvicultural regime	even-aged, uneven-aged/natural regeneration

Concrete application

Has typical use case	Forest management planning on an estate (company) level, long as well as short term. Landscape level analyses, e.g., watershed level
Has user profile	private legal entities (cooperatives / corporations / trusts / partnerships / condominium associations), local communities
Has country	Sweden
Has references about examples of application
Has number of users	<=100
Has number of real-life applications	<=100
Has utilisation in education	used by students
Has research project reference	Horstkotte, T., Moen, J., Lämås, T. & Helle, T. 2011. The legacy of logging. Estimating arboreal lichen occurrence in a boreal multiple-use landscape on a two century scale. PLoS ONE 6(12) e28779. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028779 Korosuo, A., Wikström, P., Öhman, K. and Eriksson, L.O. 2011. An integrated MCDA software application for forest planning: a case study in southwestern Sweden. Mathematical and Computational Forestry & Natural-Resource Sciences 3(2), 75-86.
Has tool dissemination	Courses

Decision support techniques used in the DSS

Has decision support techniques	Heureka.Decision support techniques

Support of Knowledge Management

Has knowledge management processes	Heureka.Knowledge management process

Support of social participation

Has support for social participation	Heureka.Support of social participation

DSS development

Has DSS development	Heureka.Description of DSS development

Documentation

Has website	http://www.slu.se/heureka
Has online demo
Has manual	Yes
Has technical documentation	Yes
Has reference	Wikström, P., L. Edenius, Elfving, B., Eriksson, L.O., Lämås, T., Sonesson, J., Öhman, K., Wallerman, J., Waller, C., Klintebäck, F. 2011. The Heureka forestry decision support system: An overview. Mathematical and Computational Forestry & Natural-Resource Sciences. 3(2): 87-94.