About the software

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The Heureka Forestry Decision Support System (DSS) is a suite of freely available softwares developed and hosted by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). The system covers the whole decision support process from data inventory to tools for selecting among plan alternatives with multi-criteria decision making techniques.

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)
  • PlanBEval 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

  • Supported Operating Systems: Windows (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 has been tested so far)
  • .Net 2.0 is required, .NET 4.0 will be required in forthcoming versions
  • Windows Mobile 5.1 or later is required for Ivent

Distribution

  • Freely available for registered users
  • Download available from internet.
  • Windows ClickOnce client applications. May be changed to MSI installer in 2010.

Development platform

  • Development software: Visual Studio 2005 (Prof). Migration will be made to Visual Studio 2010 (in 2010).
  • Programming language: C#
  • Database server: SQL Server 2005
  • Source control: Visual Source Safe

Third party software

  • The ZIMPL] optimization language and compilator is used for formulating optimization problems and transforming them into formats that can be handled by LP_Solve and Cplex. The ZIMPL source code is released under the GNU General Public License.
  • LP_Solve. Included in PlanWise for solving optimization problems. No license is required, LP_Solve is released under the GNU 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.
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