HeProMo: A decision support tool to estimate wood harvesting productivities.

ABSTRACT: In the field of forestry, one of the most economically important ecosystem service is the provision of timber. The need to calculate the economic effects of forest management in the short, medium, and long term is increasing. Forest operations or timber harvesting, which comprises felling, processing, and transport of trees or timber, are responsible for a large part of the costs and environmental impacts associated to forest management or enterprises. From a decision maker's perspective, it is essential to estimate working productivity and production costs under given operating conditions before any operation is conducted. This work addresses the lack of a valid collection of models that allows estimating time, productivities, and costs of labor and machinery for the most important forest

SUBMITTER: Holm S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7774941 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature