User Manual – An Overview

This is an overview of the user manual of WISE, an integrated spatial decision support system built with the GEONAMICA framework. WISE is developed for the Waikato region to support Waikato Regional Council’s long-term council community planning process.

This manual contains five sections:

• Section 1 “Getting started” explains how to install WISE on your computer and how to start the program. It also describes the main features of the graphical user interface.

• Section 2 “Running the simulation” contains a step-by-step description of how to run a simulation in WISE.

• Section 3 “Policy interface” describes the steps that a policy user should follow to carry out an integrated impact assessment with WISE.

• Section 4 “Modeller interface” describes the interface for a modeller to access the underlying models and to update data and parameter settings through the system diagram in WISE.

• Section 5 “The WISE menu system” offers a systematic description of each option in the menu system.

Through this documentation, for the convenience of the user, a special arrow symbol is used in a step-by-step description of how to complete the action that you can follow along at your computer. For example: Click Open project … on the File menu.