What is EMDS?

The Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system is an application framework for knowledge-based decision support of ecological assessments at any geographic scale.  

EMDS integrates state-of-the-art geographic information system (GIS) as well as knowledge-based reasoning and decision modeling technologies in the Microsoft Windows® environment to provide decision support for a substantial portion of the adaptive management process of ecosystem management.

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EMDS Workshop at ESRI User Conference (2/6/2008)

The Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system is an application framework for knowledge-based decision support of environmental analysis and planning at any geographic scale ( http://www.institute.redlands.edu/emds/). EMDS integrates state-of-the-art GIS as well as knowledge-based reasoning and decision modeling technologies in the Microsoft Windows® environment to provide decision support for a substantial portion of the adaptive management process of ecosystem management.

The EMDS development team, now a private non-profit consortium, will be putting on a Preconference Seminar on Sunday, 3 August, at the 2008 ESRI User Conference in San Diego, CA (San Diego Convention Center, August 4-8,2008).

Registration to the User Conference is required to attend the session (please visit http://www.esri.com/events/uc/ to register). A check box on the registration form also is provided to indicate if you are interested in attending the session.

Agenda

1. EMDS Overview and Tutorial for new users (8:30 - 9:45 AM)

2. What's New in EMDS 4.0 (10:00 to 11:00 AM)

3. EMDS application presentations by users (11:00 to 1:00 PM)

4. User input on requested fixes, new features and functionality (1:00 to 2:00 PM)

5. Discussion with users on a budget model for future training and development (2:00 to 3:00 PM)

EMDS users interested in making a presentation at the workshop should contact Keith Reynolds at kreynolds@fs.fed.us or 541-750-7434.

EMDS 4.0 (1/15/2008)

The next release of EMDS is currently under development. Starting in March 2008, we will begin a beta testing phase and hope to release a full version by the beginning of April 2008.

 Highlights of EMDS 4.0 include:

  • Full ArcGIS 9.2 compatibility
  • Central project file for easy sharing of projects among users
  • Full .NET 2.0 and 3.5 compatibility
  • Ability to run EMDS as a standalone application (outside of ArcMap) with ArcGIS Engine
  • Performance enhancements
  • Ability to read and store information within personal and file geodatabases

If you need to use EMDS with ArcGIS 9.2 ASAP, you may try the EMDS 3.2 "Emergency Version".

EMDS Forums (6/8/2006)

The EMDS User Forums are currently being migrated from the Yahoo! Groups "EMDS User Group" to a new system hosted and maintained by the Redlands Institute at the University of Redlands.

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