Vilas-netLogo

=Overview=

The Trails Forward program running in Vilas county covers almost 1 million acres, and is designed to host a large contingent of individual agents. Because of the computational load required to update such a large world, we have developed a sophisticated server application that is optimized to take advantage of a large pool of processing power available to us locally. In order to prototype agent models in a much more rapid fashion, we suggest developing them first in netLogo, which is designed for development of relatively small-scale agent simulation. In order to recreate the suite of environmental conditions agents will experience in the full Trails Forward system, I have included this information which describes how to recreate the Trails Forward environment within netLogo. The full dataset is included below; however, given the constraints of netLogo, it would be prudent to only import a portion of the landscape.

=Processes=

Vilas County Data Model - Describes the spatial data used in assembling the Vilas County environment Forest Initialization - Describes the algorithm used for the initial generation of forests Forest Growth - Describes the algorithm used to grow forests

=Data=

[|Vilas_Data_NetLogo.csv] - County-wide data required to construct the environment NLCD Codes Zoning Codes - Vilas County = =