Design of forest management planning DSS for wildfire risk reduction

Forest management planning is generally a complicated task. The amount of data, information and knowledge involved in the management process is often overwhelming. Decision support systems can help forest managers make well documented decisions concerning forest management planning. These systems in...

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Published in:Ecological informatics 2008, Vol.3 (1), p.122-133
Main Authors: Kaloudis, Spiridon, Costopoulou, Constantina I., Lorentzos, Nikos A., Sideridis, Alexander B., Karteris, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
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Decision support systems
Forest management planning
Geographic information systems
Wildfire Destruction Danger Index
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Summary:Forest management planning is generally a complicated task. The amount of data, information and knowledge involved in the management process is often overwhelming. Decision support systems can help forest managers make well documented decisions concerning forest management planning. These systems include a wide variety of components, depending on the management goals of the forested land. Although an increased growth of decision support systems in specific domains of forest management planning exists, there is no special design model for the deployment of forest management planning. To this direction, this paper has the following objectives: Firstly, to propose a conceptual design model for developing goal-driven forest management planning decision support systems. Secondly, to apply the design model for a particular case of these systems, the wildfire risk reduction decision support systems. Thirdly, to present the deployment of a wildfire risk reduction decision support system as well as its results for a specific forest area.
ISSN:1574-9541
DOI:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2007.07.008