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An Individual Tree Simulator for Assessment of Forest Management Methods

Artur Signell, Johan Schöring, Mats Aspnäs, Jan Westerholm, An Individual Tree Simulator for Assessment of Forest Management Methods. In: Cray User Group 2008 Proceedings (CD-ROM), 2008.

Abstract:

Suswood is a parallel forest simulator capable of simulating growth, mortality and reproduction of large amounts of trees in multiple, polygon shaped compartments. Simulating on single tree level allows study of much more detailed management systems than on stand level, as tree selection can be made based on the properties of the trees, such as height and diameter or on the surroundings of a tree.
We describe the design, implementation, scalability and performance results of the simulator, which is fully parallelized and able to take advantage of the computational power of 1024+ computing nodes for a single simulation. It has been designed to be able to simulate forests larger than 100 000 ha containing billions of trees.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpSiScAsWe08a,
  title = {An Individual Tree Simulator for Assessment of Forest Management Methods},
  booktitle = {Cray User Group 2008 Proceedings (CD-ROM)},
  author = {Signell, Artur and Schöring, Johan and Aspnäs, Mats and Westerholm, Jan},
  year = {2008},
}

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