Interpreting wind damage risk–how multifunctional forest management impacts standing timber at risk of wind felling

Application of Ant Colony Optimization for the Risk Management of Wind Damage in Forest Planning

Ant colony optimization (ACO) is still quite a new technique and seldom used in the field of forest planning compared to other heuristics such as simulated annealing and genetic algorithms. This work was aimed at evaluating the suitability of ACO for optimizing the clear-cut patterns of a forest landscape when aiming at simultaneously minimizing the risk of wind damage and maintaining sustainab...

Changes of Forest Stands Vulnerability to Future Wind Damage Resulting from Different Management Methods

The structure of forests stands changes continuously as a result of forest growth and both natural and anthropogenic disturbances like windthrow or management activities – planting/cutting of trees. These structure changes can stabilize or destabilize forest stands in terms of their resistance to wind damage. The driving force behind the damage is the climate, but the magnitude and sign of resu...

Wind Derivatives: Hedging Wind Risk Msc Thesis Applied Mathematics " Wind Derivatives: Hedging Wind Risk "

Preface Over the last 11 months, I have done research in the field of wind derivatives for my MSc thesis. I performed this research in close cooperation with Mercurious, and my professor Kees Oosterlee. In October 2012 the MSc thesis project was born at CWI in Amsterdam. That day I met with Kees Oosterlee and Jerry de Leeuw (managing director of Mercurious). Mercurious had spotted the opportuni...

MAPPING THE RISK OF FOREST WIND DAMAGE USING AIRBORNE SCANNING LiDAR

Wind damage is known for causing threats to sustainable forest management and yield value in boreal forests. Information about wind damage risk can aid forest managers in understanding and possibly mitigating damage impacts. The objective of this research was to better understand and quantify drivers of wind damage, and to map the probability of wind damage. To accomplish this, we used open-acc...

Impacts of Wind Generation Integration