The PROGES-ISP is a user-friendly Microsoft Windows application that can support the several planning and management pursuits, from strategic to routine monitoring and management tasks.
PROGES-ISP is an integrated set of flexible tools for the spatial and temporal retrieval, as well as multi-scale visualization and analysis, of all information which characterize the functioning of any complex spatial system. Its innovative conceptual approach prefers a structural rather than algorithmic representation of the different thematic aspects characterising the behaviour of the given system. The said structural model provides an integrated synoptic framework of the different thematic sectors which constitute the system under analysis.
Key added values of the PROGES system lie in its capacity of integrating and making easily available, also to non-professional users, the huge amount of information needed to comparatively assess the different components of the spatial system targeted by the planning and management actions.
In Ecosystem Based Management projects, the implementation of PROGES-ISP applications is often supported by the Ecosystem Context Analysis and the System Cause-Effect Analysis.