Assessment of wind damage risk in forest areas: application with GIS and Fuzzy-AHP MATLAB graphical user interface tool

In the current situation, the forest degradation areas caused by severe wind-breaking has steadily risen. This research proposes an efficient decision support tool to reduce wind damage risk and monitor forest zones. This study provides an outcome of the role of the combination of geographical information system (GIS) and Fuzzy-AHP MATLAB graphical user interface (GUI) for forest managers and environmental consultants. The user-friendly application shows how the research work ensures forest spatial planning and monitoring on ecological and forest management purposes on a regional and national worldwide scale. A representative Czech case study was chosen regarding different parameter characteristics to test our approach. The study also used map surfaces from field survey sampling results and compared the ground truth values at specific locations with data from the new model. The GIS and Fuzzy-AHP GUI are helpful for various consultants in optimizing the decision-support process in many fields.