An improved planner for intelligent monitoring of sustainable development of forests

An intelligent system for data fusion of remotely sensed imagery and geographic information, System of Experts for Intelligent Data Management (SEIDAM), incorporates a reasoning system or planner. The planner organizes automatically a collection of image processing, GIS, communications, and data base agents or expert systems. The agents are organized to accomplish a user-specified goal, such as perform a forest inventory update. A new planner, PALERMO/TO, has been developed which is 65% faster than an earlier version. SEIDAM software is available on the web; www.aft.pfc.forestry.ca.