@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/15522,
	  title     = {A Detailed Timber Harvest Simulator Coupled with 3-D Visualization},
	  author    = {Jürgen Roßmann and  Gerrit Alves},
	  country	= {},
	  institution	= {},
	  abstract     = {In today-s world, the efficient utilization of wood
resources comes more and more to the mind of forest owners. It is a
very complex challenge to ensure an efficient harvest of the wood
resources. This is one of the scopes the project “Virtual Forest II"
addresses. Its core is a database with data about forests containing
approximately 260 million trees located in North Rhine-Westphalia
(NRW). Based on this data, tree growth simulations and wood
mobilization simulations can be conducted. This paper focuses on the
latter. It describes a discrete-event-simulation with an attached 3-D
real time visualization which simulates timber harvest using trees
from the database with different crop resources. This simulation can
be displayed in 3-D to show the progress of the wood crop. All the
data gathered during the simulation is presented as a detailed
summary afterwards. This summary includes cost-benefit
calculations and can be compared to those of previous runs to
optimize the financial outcome of the timber harvest by exchanging
crop resources or modifying their parameters.},
	    journal   = {International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering},
	  volume    = {3},
	  number    = {9},
	  year      = {2009},
	  pages     = {2195 - 2200},
	  ee        = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/15522},
	  url   	= {https://publications.waset.org/vol/33},
	  bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/},
	  issn  	= {eISSN: 1307-6892},
	  publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology},
	  index 	= {Open Science Index 33, 2009},
	}