Difference between revisions of "User's guide to PlanWise"
m (User's guide for PlanWise moved to User's guide to PlanWise) |
|
(No difference)
| |
Revision as of 14:27, 13 May 2009
Introduction
PlanWise is an application for long term forestry planning, including both strategic and tactical planning. It can be considered a problem solver that helps you find solutions to problems of the type "What to do and when?".
The application can can handle full cover geographical analysis which gives the basic conditions for spatial forestry planning, enabling the consideration of landscape patterns and concentration of treatments. It also gives a better connection to short term operational planning.
The application includes two main components, a growth-and-yield simulator and an optimizer. The simulator is called the Treatment Program Generator (TPG). The TPG computes alternative treatment programs for each treatment unit (stand) in a given forest area. The optimizer is called Heureka Optimization Programming System (HOPS). It is used to formulate and solve linear programming and mixed-integer programming problems for choosing between optional treatment programs. Another component is a map viewer for visualization of forest development and management under different plans, or scenarios.
Working with Projects
Forest domains and control categories
Generating treatment programs
About Control Categories, Control Tables, and Forest Domains
Optimizing
About the built-in optimization model
Analyzing Results
How Do I?
It is possible to look at the tutorial and you are free to do the exercises (all of them or those you find relevant). However, be aware of the fact that they were written for MSc-students that worked with earlier releases of PlanWise (e.g., screenshots and programming syntax will not be applicable).