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CoP Forest Management Decision Support Systems

Forests serve a multitude of purposes and address many different, often conflicting, goals to satisfy the needs of forest owners, forest industry, and society at large. This poses considerable challenges to forest managers. The need for enhanced forest decision support systems (DSSs) is evident in several EU documents related to the future role of European forests.

Forest DSSs allow the forest manager to use advanced decision support tools, such as expert and knowledge based systems, multi-criteria techniques as well as communication and visualization tools. European experience with developing and applying forest DSSs for forest management provides a solid foundation for technological innovation and collaboration between research partners.

The Community of Practice defines a European-wide framework with core processes and information standards for decision making in a sustainable multifunctional forest management environment. Furthermore, it defines requirements for DSS implementation and provide a consistent European-wide quality reference for development of decision systems enhancing forest management.

The new COST Action DSS4ES contributes to the ongoing work of this Semantic Wiki and will help to update the content continuously.

What you can find here?

repository of DSS descriptions as well as country reports, case studies and lessons learned (Wiki core elements)

• List of Forest Decision Support Systems
• List of Case Studies
• List of Lessons Learned
• List of Country Reports
• "Frequently Asked Questions" - the WIKI content filtered for you

Which topics are covered?

Focus topics about DSS covered by the CoP working groups)

• DSS architecture and design
• Methods and Models
• Knowledge Management processes
• Participatory processes

Which are the sources of information?

• Country Report
• Case studies

How to contribute?

• Introduce a new description of a DSS > DSS description Handbook
• Add a new case study
• Participate in a ForestDSS Community of Practice working group

Reference Information

• Wiki User's manual
• User's glossary
• Wiki workshop (Umea 2013) > step-by-step wiki basic concepts & semantic queries

Optimization of the platform (wiki issues)

Reported bugs and improvement suggestions are listed up here: Wiki Issue list

For reporting new bugs and improvement suggestions use this form: Form:Wiki Issue

This wiki is maintained by the Wiki TaskForce and ForestDSS Community of Practice