Automating the Generation of Forest Management Prescriptions
Arif Ur Rahman, Susana Miguel Barreiro, JosÃ‚Â´e Borges
Journal of Information & Systems Management, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2014.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/jism/fulltext/v4n3/3.pdf
Abstract:
Forest management involves treatment of forest stands to improve the current stand structure and condition to achieve management goals. A treatment may involve different operations including plantation, thinning and harvest. StandSim is used to simulate the growth of forest stands for a given time horizon. It requires a file with all the prescriptions for a given
situation. A prescription is a set of k cycles, each one consisting of a different permutation of stand variables.

This paper reports the development of a simple to use and platform-independent tool i.e.  Prescriptions-Generator, for automating
the generation of prescriptions for forest management. The tool is developed in Java and can be embedded in other software. The embedding in other software is made easy by the use of an XML file for giving input to the tool. It can also be used independent of other tools using a simple to use graphical user interface.