[PDF] Top 20 Designing decision support tools for Mediterranean forest ecosystems management: a case study in Portugal

... prescription in each land ...proposed Mediterranean prescription simulator addressed these three major MIS linkage ...Portuguese forest eco- system ... See full document

... classified in different fuel model classes according to if they were managed; so following this criteria, area non-managed were classified with fuel models where fire is driven by both tree litter and understory ... See full document

... Terrestrial ecosystems are widely recognized as useful mechanisms, as they store large quantities of carbon in their ...bodies. In this context, the present study aims at analyzing carbon ... See full document

... National Forest was chosen as a study case due to its importance in ...National Forest Service aims at balancing the age class area distribution of the ...an in- termediate ... See full document

... the case of forest management issues, local com- munities’ lack of decision-making power regarding the best strategies to implement seems to limit the plan’s efficacy and ...resulting ... See full document

... particularly in the forestry ...plan in advance the arrival of the trucks to the mills’ ...Revenue Management principles often used in for example airline and hotel booking ...passage ... See full document

... held in an empty space, commonly called “sandbox” in the context of Second Life (regardless of whether it has any actual sand or whether it is an actual box or – most likely – not), large enough to build ... See full document

... if in mixed orchards, almond, fig and olive trees may promote carob growth (facilitation) based on the fact that farmers had conducted several ameliorative practices, like soil tillage, fertilization and ... See full document

... certification in forest sector: international standards, recognition of equivalence (mutual recognition), regional or international cooperation, bottom-up harmonization and unilateral recognition (ITTO, ... See full document

... result in data silos as a consequence of lack of machine communication protocols, common data formats or common meaning of exchanged ...interoperability. In this context, water utility engineers and ... See full document

... Idea management is an integral part of the innovation process and it is presented as an essential factor for achieving ...peaks in submissions of ideas, the appropriate analysis and the allocation of ... See full document

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... improved in one criterion without worsening at least the value of one of the remaining ...technique in decision support architectures ...ecosystem management planning ...technique ... See full document

... of decision processes, internal politics, attributions about the motives and characters of others, and theories to explain events, but these different types of information are mixed ...the decision process ... See full document

... cost in which the biggest reduction occurs, but in this situation the store inventory cost component also contributes to a significant portion of the total ...as, in average, the cost of the products ... See full document

... catches in California, Carey (1996) concluded that mountain topography, valleys, rivers, and shorelines may channel dispersal of an established population through paths of least ... See full document

... translation in the real-world [29]. In this study, segmentation should ideally produce polygons that correspond to individual trees, in order to estimate AGB using variables that can be ... See full document

... mentioned in the previous section, motivates the development of new technologies that can augment human understanding and decision- making abilities to create situation awareness in cyber ... See full document

... Development of a spatial analysis methodology using Spatial Multicriteria Analysis (Analytic Hierarchy Process - AHP), based in biophysical data and legal constraints that could be usefu[r] ... See full document

... groups in only one direction (negative ...moulds. In Figure 1(b), principal component 1 separated the PUs according to the level of residual contamination in the ...France, Portugal and Spain ... See full document