What is Restoration Management Tool?

Restoration Management Tool is a support tool for environmental specialists that helps to plan and predict reforestation project outcomes in order to choose the most suitable one.

A Plantation Case is a proposal for a reforestation project, which includes project data, costs, worker productivity, and the planting method to be used.

Based on this initial data, the tool calculates cost estimates, work times, and liters of water to be used.

For the same reforestation project, different plantations cases can be proposed to compare the results and choose the most optimal one. Each plantation case consists of:

• Input data (specification of each case): Data used to define each plantation case, indicating the project duration, the number of trees to be planted, the number of workers, and the number of fog collectors to be used.
• Starting data (data used for calculations): For each plantation case to be calculated, you can select which values from the cost, method, and productivity tables you want to use.

- Costs: Data that allows the calculation of the cost of items used in the plantation, such as collectors (COLLECTOR COST), transportation (TRANSPORTATION COST) and other additional costs (ADDITIONAL COST) like trees, water and hoses

- Methods: Data used to define the planting method to be used, including information about the cost of materials for that method, planting productivity, irrigation requirements, or survival rate.

- Productivity: Data used to calculate the required work duration and costs, including information about land preparation time, installation of irrigation systems and collectors, workdays, and wages. It also includes information to calculate the productivity of the collectors based on the impact surface area and water capture capacity for each type of collector used (traditional and innovative).

• Output data (results): Based on the input data, the project costs, required work duration, and liters of water used will be calculated.