About RegWise

RegVis is a tool for large-scale forestry scenario analysis. Because users have different assumptions about forest management and use, the application can be used to evaluate a variety of forestry-related issues. What to include in an analysis is decided by the user and may include many utilities: supply of timber, biomass fuel, development of biodiversity, and amount of carbon sequestration in forest.

The simpliest analysis you can do with RegVis is non-spatial. IN such an analysis you would normally choose to use National Forest Inventory (NFI) survey plots as input data. A spatial analysis requires whole-coverage data, which is obtained by combining NFI plots with remote sensing data. One method to combine data is called kNN, and Heureka will offer the possibility to import kNN-Sweden data ([1]). A GIS-tool for working with landscape samples in the form of 1x1 km contiguous squares have been developed.

Results can be presented in tables and maps that describe the state and development of the forest ecosystem as well as outcomes of cuttings and other utilities.

The application addresses the needs of different kind os users, for example the National Board of Forestry, the Swedish Environmental Agency, large forest companies, and branch organizations and actors interested in forest policy issues. Because many uses are included in the analyses, other organizations - such as NGOs, municipalities, and county administrations - will benefit from the analyses.