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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hello all,<BR>
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I've got a quite basic question about the program. I'm doing a thesis that needs to research the possible integration of models that calculate the growth of forests, grass, cultivated fields, etc. along with a model that simulates the underground waterflow within the areas of research. All of this has to be integrated into a GIS system and that is where the question comes in.<BR>
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Is it possible to incorporate different allready written mathematical models into Grass and such a way that they can also manage to work together? I mean by this that we have to divide the patches of land we research into different species (forest, grassland, cultivated land, ...) all of these areas around a riverdelta. Next to these patches, they should give excess water to the rivermodel that has to pass it on downstream for other patches of land.<BR>
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I think that grass is possible for this project because as far as I understand it seems to work with different modules. So we could have each different patch of land be generated and calculated by a different module and let the watermodel do its work on the horizontal scale between the patches.<BR>
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The next question is if it would be possible to integrate models/modules in other languages such as Fortran into Grass, and if this requires lots of complicated work?<BR>
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Thanks in advance for helping me,<BR>
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Maarten Vandewalle<BR>
Student at University of Antwerp</FONT>
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