Design features behind success of the ecosystem management decision support system and future development

Forests

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 27-46

  Reynolds, Keith ^a   Paplanus, Steven ^b   Miller, Bruce ^c   Murphy, Philip ^d  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b Mountain View Business Group LLC   (United States)

^c Rules of Thumb Inc   (United States)

^d InfoHarvest Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem management decision support system; Environmental analysis; Environmental planning; Logic modeling; Multi criteria decision analysis; Parallel processing; Provenance tracking; Tiered architecture; Workflows

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DESIGN; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENGINES; ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT DECISION SUPPORT; ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; LOGIC MODELING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; TIERED ARCHITECTURE; WORK-FLOWS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 84922462719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f6010027     Document Type: Article

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