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Utilizing Timber Harvest Simulation as a Tool for Education

Authors:
Daniel Losch
Jürgen Roßmann

Keywords: Simulation; Geo Information Systems; Forest Information Systems; Education; Timber Industry

Abstract:
Forestry is an important economic field in Germany as well as world wide. In Germany, specially trained forest managers are in charge of silviculture and preservation of forests. An important part of a forest manager's training is the ability to estimate the economical feasibility and ecological impact of timber harvesting operations. In this contribution, we present timber harvest simulation as a tool to enable teachers to better present these estimations in the forestry classroom. We present the simulation as a featured application of the Forest Management System ClusterWIS, including the developments required to implement our educative approach.

Pages: 17 to 22

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: October 14, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4537

ISBN: 978-1-61208-672-9

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 14, 2018 to October 18, 2018