PLANNING HARVESTING OPERATIONS IN FOREST ENVIRONMENT: REMOTE SENSING FOR DECISION SUPPORT

Forest Harvesting Decision Support for Sustainable Development

The principles outlined here apply as much to other types of regional analysis, and not just forestry, although forestry applications show many of the complexities of the general problem. The objective is first to map the forests in some valid fashion, then to predict their growth in the future, and finally to schedule harvesting that both preserves the regeneration rate of the whole forest, pr...

Operations Research in Forest Harvesting

Operations research techniques such as mathematical programming, simulation, and the development of planning systems can contribute to decision-making in forestry management. Computers have dramatically changed the possibilities and practice of data collection, storage, analysis, and presentation but the difficulty of obtaining access to them has until recently limited their use. Development of...

Decision support system (DSS) for site selection floodwater spreading schemes using remote sensing (RS) and geographical information systems (GIS)

Decision Support for Participatory Forest Planning Using AHP and TOPSIS

Long-term forest management planning often involves several stakeholders with conflicting objectives, creating a complex decision process. Multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) presents a promising framework for finding solutions in terms of suitable trade-offs among the objectives. However, many of the MCDA methods that have been implemented in forest management planning can only be used ...

A Compound Decision Support System for Corporate Planning

Providing a plan for any corporate or firm at macro level, as an organization or enterprise resource planning has particular importance nowadays. To meet the enterprise resource planning needs applications software packages provide a set of uniform pre-prepared and pre-designed that covers all business process throughout an organization. To achieve maximum efficiency in the implementation of th...