On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Saber Razmjooei <razmjoo...@faunalia.co.uk > wrote:
> Hi there > > I reckon it will be great to have a set of plugins for hydrology and > hydraulic modelling in QGIS. > > > To develop a new hydraulic engine for QGIS is not an ideal and we will > be re-inventing the wheel. So, the ideal situation is to take an > existing tool and use QGI to pre-process or post-process the > inputs/outputs. > > > Most of the hydraulic/hydrology model I have come across are for Windows > only, which is not ideal. > > > The only one which is very powerful and really multi-platform is AnuGA > http://sourceforge.net/projects/anuga/ > > AnuGA can be used for modelling: coastal, fluvial, surface water and > urban drainage system. > > We have developed a plugin for QGIS so that you can prepare your model > GIS files (boundary files, mesh, etc). It is a bit out of date and > requires lots of tweaking. > http://sourceforge.net/projects/anuga-gai/ > > Will be good find a fund from those who are interested and develop this > further. We have several ideas to improve the plugin further (mesh > editor, result viewer, etc) but extremely busy atm. > > Cheers > Saber > What would be really nice to have would be an open source alternative to software like SMS: http://www.aquaveo.com/sms That is, a framework that is not specific to a single modle, but could be used to prepare input for multiple different models and visualize their output. A good mesh editing plugin would be an ideal start, something that could handle: - Structured meshes - Unstructured meshes - Quadtree meshes -Charlie
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