ARIES - ARtificial Intelligence for Ecosystem Services

Tool Description

ARIES is a web-based technology offered to users worldwide to assist rapid ecosystem service assessment and valuation (ESAV). Its purpose is to make environmental decisions easier and more effective. ARIES helps discover, understand, and quantify environmental assets and what factors influence their values, in a geographical area and according to needs and priorities set by its users. ARIES can accommodate a range of different use scenarios, including spatial assessments and economic valuations of ecosystem services, optimization of payment schemes for ecosystem services, and spatial policy planning.

Skills needed

No resources required to use basic functionalities (data are included, tool is web-based). Detailed analysis may require data input for region of interest if not already available.

Tech support available

ARIES consortium will stand behind the tool. Commercial support will be available.

Equipment Needs

Modern web browser

Data Needs

Probabilistic and capable of operating in conditions of data scarcity. No data will be required for basic analysis, but user data can be input to improve predictions.

Submitted By: fvilla
Last Updated: February 10, 2011, 12:38 pm

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