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Abstract(s)
Forests provide different services and products in processes involving
diverse groups of stakeholders with particular perceptions and perspectives.
The relationship between forest uses and stakeholders can be more or less
compatible, which affects forest management decisions. Part of the
solution for potential conflicts among forest uses and stakeholders relies on
the definition of the best locations for different uses: it depends on
gathering and processing information and on establishing a framework for
optimal (or satisfactory) forest management decision making. The
AppTitude© software was developed to evaluate the suitability of landscape
for different forest uses based on stakeholder’s judgment and minimummaximum
limitations (inputs). The software implements and automatized
Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methodologies were used to evaluate
suitability according to a hierarchy of different types of criteria (e.g.
social, economic, environmental, political, and technical) associated with
spatial information through attributes connected to vector or raster files.
Finally, the software solves automatically the hierarchy and spatial
probability distribution to obtain spatial suitability surfaces (output raster
files) for particular use and regions.
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Keywords
Multi-criteria decision making Decision support system
Citation
Pérez, F.; Azevedo, J.C (2015). AppTitude©: A tool for forest suitability assessment. In IUFRO Landscape Ecology International Conference. Tartu, Estonia. ISBN 978-9949-9715-0-3