This software is
developed as part of an interdisciplinary project between Computer
Science and Ecology. We have developed an individual based,
spatially explicit forest growth model. We have implemented
a simulator that simulates the evoution of such a forest. We
have designed efficient algorithms using techniques that include:
using graphics hardware for fast geometric computation; hierarchical
spatial decomposition using quad-tree like structures; monopole
approximation. These techniques allow us to efficiently simulate
large forests (few sq. kilometres) for long periods of time
(few thousand time steps).
Landscape
128mX128m
250 years
4 species
Landscape
128mX128m
250 years
2 species
Landscape
128mX128m
250 years
1 species
Density
A Flash slideshow of
images
The software will be available soon
on this site.
"A scalable simulator for forest dynamics,"
S. Govindarajan, M. Dietze, P.K. Agarwal, J. Clark. accepted
to Symposium of Computational Geometry 2004.
Till Brenner
Sukhendu Chakraborty
Mike Dietze
Sathish Govindarajan
