WIS.2

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Has flag	N/A

Name, responsible organisation and contact person

Has full name	Sustainable Forest Management Decision Support System
Has acronym	WIS.2
Has wiki contact person	Christian Rosset
Has wiki contact e-mail	christian.rosset@bfh.ch

Software identification

Has software	WIS.2.Software

Description

Has description	[[Has description::WIS.2 focuses on providing guidance in sustainable forestry management. The system gives strong organisational and decision support in implementing, monitoring and controlling silvicultural practices. The system provides specific information for the different phases of the silvicultural process, allowing planners to simulate the mid- to long-term consequences of various action scenarios, and supporting users in solving complex silvicultural problems at multiple scales (i.e., from the whole enterprise level down to the single stand level; from very long-term to short-term). The scope of WIS.2 includes: Scope of WIS.2 formalising the manifold demands of society, forest owners and stakeholders for implementation in forest management; defining different variations of silvicultural strategy and implementation concepts, in order to assess the entrepreneurial strategy and recognize the mid- to long-term consequences; pointing out the priority-]]
Has modelling scope	Forest indicators
Has temporal scale	Long term (strategic), Medium term (tactical)
Has spatial context	Spatial with no neighbourhood interrelations
Has spatial scale	Forest level, Regional/national level
Has objectives dimension	Multiple objectives
Has related DSS	SiWaWa
Has goods and services dimension	Market wood products, Non-market services
Has decision making dimension	Single decision maker
Has forest management goal	biomass estimation, conservation, forest inventory, forest vegetation management, silvicultural regime, species selection, wildlife habitat, yield prediction, wood supply planning, multi-functional
Supports tree species	Buche
Supports silvicultural regime	even-aged

Concrete application

Has typical use case
Has user profile
Has country	Belgium, Italy, Spain, Switzerland
Has references about examples of application
Has number of users	<=30
Has number of real-life applications	<=30
Has utilisation in education	used by students
Has research project reference	...
Has tool dissemination	...

Decision support techniques used in the DSS

Has decision support techniques	WIS.2.Decision support techniques

Support of Knowledge Management

Has knowledge management processes	WIS.2.Knowledge management process

Support of social participation

Has support for social participation	WIS.2.Support of social participation

DSS development

Has DSS development	WIS.2.Description of DSS development

Documentation

Has website
Has online demo
Has manual	No
Has technical documentation	No
Has reference

see overview on DSS according to FORSYS problem dimension