GIS
Geographic Information System (GIS) has also developed functions such as analyzing available information and using them as a decision and a support system as well as it compiles the information as a whole and stores it. In that way, GIS analyses showthe spatial distribution of the observed forest condition and also may help to find cause parameters for the observed – and classified – forest decline phenomena. The link between environmental factors and an efficient forestry GIS can therefore work as a tool for an operational and practically oriented monitoring system for forest damage assessment and management. It may play an important role as a planning tool for forest and land-use affairs in a broader sense