Knowledge acquisition for natural resource management

Decision support systems (DSSs) can play a powerful role in natural resource management (NRM), by allowing more effective and collective use of information in addressing complex and often poorly structured questions. CSIRO Tropical Agriculture, in Townsville, Australia, is developing a DSS generator...

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Published in:Computers and electronics in agriculture 1999-06, Vol.23 (1), p.71-82
Main Authors: Gunn, Alison, Sutcliffe, Geoff, Walker, Daniel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions
AIDE A LA DECISION
APLICACIONES DEL ORDENADOR
APPLICATION DES ORDINATEURS
Biological and medical sciences
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
DECISION SUPPORT
Decision support systems
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Generalities. Biometrics, experimentation. Remote sensing
Generalities. Information. Documentation. Research
GESTION DES RESSOURCES
Knowledge presentation
NATURAL RESOURCES
ORDENACION DE RECURSOS
RECURSOS NATURALES
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
RESSOURCE NATURELLE
SOPORTE DE DECISION
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Summary:Decision support systems (DSSs) can play a powerful role in natural resource management (NRM), by allowing more effective and collective use of information in addressing complex and often poorly structured questions. CSIRO Tropical Agriculture, in Townsville, Australia, is developing a DSS generator that provides a flexible environment for the construction of decision support tools that assist in assessing the implications of proposed policies or management actions. In this context, the POSEIDON system was designed to help resource managers with the problem formulation phase of building a DSS, i.e. identifying specific issues that need to be analysed to provide an answer to a broad NRM question. This is achieved by a form of knowledge acquisition from free text, which performs intelligent analysis of NRM documents. This article describes the design of POSEIDON and its application in NRM problem formulation.
ISSN:0168-1699
1872-7107
DOI:10.1016/S0168-1699(99)00022-8