Hi, 2011/3/31 Margherita Di Leo <[email protected]>: > I am willing to participate as student to GSoC with a GRASS GIS related > project. > I'm a third year PhD student and my main research interests lie in > hydrological modeling coupled with GIS. > My idea is the following: recently, in GRASS GIS new modules suitable for > hydrological analysis have been developed, r.stream*. I tested it and found > very complete and useful, I currently use it for hydrological analysis and > develop python scripts using it. > My idea for GSoC is to develop a sophisticated Graphical User Interface in > wxpython for r.stream*. > GIMP users may know the Filter Pack, that allow to see the preview of the > effects over an image. I imagine the r.stream* GUI something like that, in > which it's possible to see rapidly on a small portion of the area of > interest the result of the hydrological analysis, and then decide if apply > the analysis or not. > > It will include "multiple previews". Every result can be saved as an image > and set of parameters for future use in additional "preview windows", next > choose from group of possible parameters that which is most suitable. > Also, changing the extend of sample area will be available "on the fly". > > Parameters that shall to be shown are: > * network (vector) + optionally (order + elementary basins + > distance/elevation) > > Parameters to change: > * threshold > * Montgomery exponent > * SFD treshold > > Optionally: > * Flow accumulation map > * Map of depressions > > The advantage of such a graphical interface is to allow the user to have a > simple approach to a sophisticated thing like hydrology. Many hydrologists > use other GIS suites because they simply don't know or don't know how to use > r.stream*. I believe that such a GUI could improve the user approach to > hydrological analysis in GRASS. > > My tentative of timeline is the following: > > 2 weeks: design interface based on other similar software > 3 weeks - midterm goal: get a preview widget working in grass7 > 3 weeks: add functionality and documentation > 1 week: testing > final goal: working GUI for grass7
I could be co-mentor for this project (wxGUI part), anyone interested to mentor this project from hydrological modeling point of view? Martin -- Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
