Hello VisAD Community,
I wanted to bring to your attention a tool that I have been developing,
for a few years now, as part of my Master and PhD dissertations.
Several people have collaborated in the development of this tool and
they are listed on a website that I created.
The application is called CUENCAS (stands for basins in Spanish).
CUENCAS makes use of the VisAD library, and although it exploits only a
small fraction of the features of the library, VisAD has facilitated a
great deal the visualizations that have been required for my research
(Thanks for developing such a flexible library).
CUENCAS is a river networks analysis tool. It is a simplified version of
the original GIS called HidroSig, developed by the School of Geosciences
at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia over the last 8 years.
While HidroSig has evolved to be a full featured GIS, CUENCAS has
focused on river networks as a numerical simulation and data archiving
GIS environment. CUENCAS is ment to be a research tool, rather than a
commercial product. The development of CUENCAS since 2001 has been
supported by various grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
http://cires.colorado.edu/~ricardo/cuencas.htm
<http://cires.colorado.edu/%7Ericardo/cuencas.htm>
I think CUENCAS is now mature enough to be shared with the community
(Plus I finally got around writing some documentation and the javadoc).
CUENCAS main strength is terrain analysis and extraction of attributes
from the River Network. It also implements a rainfall runoff model
framework (link-hillslope based) flexible enough to incorporate a
variety of processes and equations.
I have had the opportunity to share this tool with Don Murray and Jeff
Whitaker from Unidata. At the time we thought about integrating
CUENCAS' tools into IDV, but since then, I moved from Boulder and this
project is part of the TODO list (more like HAS_TO_BE_DONE list).
CUENCAS uses the Java webstart mechanism, so running it is very easy.
Just go to
http://cires.colorado.edu/~ricardo/cuencas/cuencas-download.htm
<http://cires.colorado.edu/%7Ericardo/cuencas/cuencas-download.htm>
and hit the "RUN CUENCAS" link. Java Webstart should take care of
everything. I have successfully tested CUENCAS on several flavors of
Linux, Mac OS X (Tiger) and Windowz.
One short term plan is to change the proprietary data format that
CUENCAS currently uses by netCDF files. If anyone has the time and
interest I would be glad to get some help. There are also a number of
half-done tools and I plan to work on them as they become really necessary.
I hope you enjoy it,
Ricardo
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Ricardo Mantilla
Posdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
801 Leroy Pl. MSEC 254
Socorro, NM 87801
Phone: (505) 835-5068
Office: MSEC 254
http://cires.colorado.edu/~ricardo/
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