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Fig. 8.5 The ConSEnT platform integrating various components in informatics, modeling, and
decision support. BPdb is the database in MySQL; BioFeed, BioScope, and BioTrAnS are optimiza-
tion models; and BioAgents is the simulation model. All models use the common database. BPSys
is the web-based decision support system. The use cases show the different ways of utilizing the
platform. BPEng stands for researchers involved in the biomass production engineering project and
working in this area, while EBI stands for Energy Biosciences Institute, which funded the project
policies, regulations, and incentives must also be assessed at such larger scales.
As pointed out previously, the spatial and temporal scales to be analyzed here
rule out experimental/fi eld studies and necessitate the use of model-based tools.
8.3.4.1
Land Use and Policy Models
Understanding and predicting changes in the agricultural landscape, including crop
rotations and land use change, has been under focus, leading to several model-based
studies. POLYSYS (Policy Analysis Systems) is a national-level agricultural simula-
tion model for the USA to estimate agricultural production response, resource use,
price, income, and environmental impacts of projected changes from an agricultural
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