COMPREHENSIVE DATA VISUALIZATION FOR CFD AND FOREST GROWTH SIMULATIONS IN EROBOTICS SYSTEMS FOR FOREST PLANNING AND STORM DAMAGE PREVENTION

摘要

CFD and forest growth simulators are very special systems that are difficult to handle and require specific knowledge inthe addressed domains; furthermore, commonly provided visualizations of the results are hard to understand and analyze, inparticular to people not so deeply involved in the specific area of expertise. The need for such simulations became clear in 2007when the windstorm "Kyrill" hit Europe and caused massive damages to the forests. Proper storm and growth simulations cansupport forest planning to prevent such damages in the future. The recently introduced concepts of eRobotics aim to bridge the gapbetween expert systems and comprehensive software applications by supporting the understanding of complex simulation resultswith realistic virtual environments. In this paper, we extend the eRobotics approach to forest planning domains, where forestryrelatedsimulations are combined with intuitive visualization approaches in order to act as decision support system to optimizefuture forest developments under ecological and sustainable aspects.