Multi Purpose Forestry Decision Support Biodiversity
Fecha de publicación :
17-abr-2011
Paginación:
Páginas 36-41
Numero / Secuencia :
volumen 3; número 1
Ciudad:
Cuenca
Tipo:
Article
Abstract:
A GIS is capable of identifying a set of land units meeting positional, temporal, topological
and multiple on-site attribute criteria. Based on the combination of its generic analytical functionalities, a
GIS can also be used to rank the alternative land units and propose the best or worst ones in terms of the
non-weighted or weighted criteria. More advanced multi-criteria decision methods are however not easily
incorporated in the GIS-framework so that extension with dedicated tools is required to upgrade the GIS
to a full blown sDSS. In this paper we illustrate this upgrading of GIS to sDSS and we argue that when
also temporal alternatives are dealt with, the DSS can be termed spatio-temporal. Three statements are
made: (i) the presented rationale is challenged by phenomena of spatial and spatio-temporal interaction,
(ii) important research avenues are present in order to optimize topological and off-site decision attributes
in the spatial and spatio-temporal decision problems and (iii) the forestry domain is very suitable for
study and application of all the mentioned issues due to the explicit spatial and temporal nature of the
management issues which must be addressed.
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