SmartScape™: A web-based decision support system for assessing the tradeoffs among multiple ecosystem services under crop-change scenarios

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 121, Issue , 2016, Pages 108-121

  Tayyebi, Amin ^a,b   Meehan, Timothy D ^b   Dischler, Jeffrey ^b   Radloff, Gary ^b   Ferris, Michael ^b   Gratton, Claudio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop change policy; Ecosystem services; Policymakers; Scenario analysis; SmartScape ; Web based GIS

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMERCE; CROPS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; WATER QUALITY; WEBSITES;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS; PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK; POLICY MAKERS; SCENARIO ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; WEB-BASED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; WEB-BASED GIS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GIS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY MAKING; SOFTWARE; SOIL CHEMISTRY; STAKEHOLDER; TRADE-OFF; WATER QUALITY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DANE COUNTY; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84951744930     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2015.12.003     Document Type: Article

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