Modelling Spatial Connectivity of Forest Harvest Areas: Exact and Heuristic Approaches

Pete Bettinger

2023

Abstract

A forest management planning process can involve the development of a tactical plan that illustrates for a land manager where to go and what to do within a specific period of time, acknowledging and satisfying all recognized management constraints. More often these days, forest management constraints address the size, timing, and placement of management activities. The optimization methods used to mathematically develop a forest plan, and to integrate spatial constraints into planning efforts are often referred to as exact and heuristic approaches. This paper describes how one might model spatial connectivity of forest harvest areas as constraints under both approaches, using two different representations of connectivity, the unit restriction model and the area restriction model. The heuristic approach to the latter has until now only been described using scientific notation. Here, we provide guidance for the programming logic.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bettinger P. (2023). Modelling Spatial Connectivity of Forest Harvest Areas: Exact and Heuristic Approaches. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM, ISBN 978-989-758-649-1, SciTePress, pages 136-143. DOI: 10.5220/0011761600003473

in Bibtex Style

@conference{gistam23,
author={Pete Bettinger},
title={Modelling Spatial Connectivity of Forest Harvest Areas: Exact and Heuristic Approaches},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM,},
year={2023},
pages={136-143},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011761600003473},
isbn={978-989-758-649-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM,
TI - Modelling Spatial Connectivity of Forest Harvest Areas: Exact and Heuristic Approaches
SN - 978-989-758-649-1
AU - Bettinger P.
PY - 2023
SP - 136
EP - 143
DO - 10.5220/0011761600003473
PB - SciTePress