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Abstract(s)
Sustainable forest management requires decision support systems to evaluate possible scenarios and anticipate
the consequences of decisions. Forest modellers typically develop complex systems of equations to predict the
behaviour of forests which makes the use of forest models difficult for end-users in general, affecting transfer of
knowledge and technology. To overcome these difficulties and facilitate their practical use, models can be integrated
into software to generate user-friendly forest simulators. In this paper we introduce and describe
ForestMTIS, a cloud computing compiled and editable open-source project to generate forest simulators which
was developed for statistical, non-spatial, deterministic, disaggregated, single species even-aged stand growth
and yield models. We demonstrate the use of ForestMTIS based on the development of FlorNExT®, its first
practical application, based on a collaborative approach to make growth and yield modelling and sustainable
forest management available to a large community of users in the Northeast of Portugal.
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Keywords
ASP.Net Cloud computing Forest simulator Knowledge transfer Software as a service
Citation
Gómez-García, Esteban; Azevedo, João C.; Pérez-Rodríguez, Fernando (2018). A compiled project and open-source code to generate web-based forest modelling simulators. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. ISSN 0168-1699. 147, p. 1-5