LMS: Changes in Vegetation
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 (EDYS) is soil condition at the time of the disturbance.
This in turn is dominated by rainfalls that possibly occur at that time (CASC2D simulation)
Input data for the simulations are available from the Internet, such as Data Elevation Models (DEM) from USGS web site or from custom databases (spieces characteristics)