Basic HTML version of Foils prepared January 31 99
| A decision maker (the end user of the system) wants to evaluate changes in vegetation in some geographical region over a long time period caused by some short term disturbances such as a fire or human's activities. |
| One of the critical parameters of the vegetation model is soil condition at the time of the disturbance. |
| This in turn is dominated by rainfalls that possibly occur at that time |