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ARIES - Artificial Intelligence for Ecosystem Services

ARIES (Artificial Intelligence for Ecosystem Services) 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.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Tool category
  • Ecosystem services assessment
  • Socio-economic analysis
MSP stages
  • 2 Gather data and define current conditions
  • 5 Evaluate alternative management actions
  • 6 Monitor and evaluate management actions
MSP users
  • Planners
  • Scientists
  • NGOs
Type of software
  • Web-based
  • Toolbox
Compatible OS
    Input data
    • Quantitative
    • Spatially explicit
    Output data
    • Layer
    • Maps
    • Tables
    • Graphs
    Organization k.LAB
    Code accessibility Not available
    Software license Commercial license (without fee), freeware
    Documentation
    • Unavailable
    • Videos & presentations
    Tool community facilities
      Additional informations The user side of ARIES is a web interface we call the ARIES explorer, which does not yet have a publicly available prototype. The modeler side of ARIES is the k.LAB software, a well-established set of tools that provides server software for network nodes and modeling engines, and client interfaces that allow users to access the ARIES network, develop models, and annotate data. The software is available for registered users at integratedmodelling.org
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