About the software
The Heureka Unit at SLU is developing software for forest management planning and analysis, with special focus on multi-purpose forestry. The software applications are intended for both large-scale and small-scale forestry and are designed for different users' specific problem areas:
- StandWise for stand-level analysis (sw: BeståndsVis)
- PlanWise for forest-level planning and analysis (sw: PlanVis)
- PlanEval is a multi-criteria decision making tool for comparing alternatives generated in PlanWise
- RegWise for regional and national scenario analysis (sw: RegVis)
- Ivent is an application for field inventory - plotwise sampling of single-tree data (for Windows mobile devices)
- PlanStart is used for project initiation and data preparation (mainly import of data from different data sources)
Client platform
- Windows application (XP and Vista have been tested so far)
- .Net 2.0 is required, .NET 4.0 will be required in forthcoming versions
Development plattform
- Development software: Visual Studio 2005 (Prof). Migration will be made to Visual Studio 2010 (in 2010).
- Programming language: C#
- Source control: Visual Source Safe
- Distribution: ClickOnce. Will be changed to MSI installer in 2010.
Third party software
- LP_Solve. Included in PlanWise for solving optimization problems. No license is required, LP_Solve is released under the GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
- ILOG CPLEX ®. Included in PlanWise for solving large optimization problems. Cplex is a commercial solver for solving LP and MIP problems. Note: The user must have a license to be able to run CPLEX from PlanWise.
- ZedGraph. Used for making graphs. Released under thte GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
- DotNetMagic. Advanced user interface controls. Requires a development license but is free for the end user.
- OnyxTree. Used to create tree images used in StandWise.