PlanWise
About PlanWise
PlanWise (swe: PlanVis) is an application for long term forestry planning, including both strategic and tactical planning. PlanWise 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 progamming 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.
System requirements
- Windows (see About the software - Client platform)
Prerequisites
- Sql Server 2005 or Sql Server Express 2005 (free)
- PlanStart
- A forest database, remote on a server or local on your PC, in which your forest data is stored
Installation Process
- Check that your system meets the system requirements, and that you have the proper prerequisites installed.
- After registering, follow the link to the dowload page and click on the application you want to install