[Qgis-developer] QGIS plugin for catchment analysis and modelling using PIHM

[Saber Razmjooei]

Worth adding a brief to this page:
http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Hydrology_%26_Hydraulic_modelling

Cheers
Saber

On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 16:12 +1300, Alister Hood wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I just want to let you know about a QGIS plugin for integrated catchment
> modelling.  Some of you may have seen it already, but it seems to be
> sort of languishing in obscurity.  I didn't see any mention of it in the
> normal QGIS community places; only in a number of academic papers.
> 
> It originally comes from here:
> http://www.pihm.psu.edu/pihmgis_home.html
> Their binary and source packages are both very messy and include a very
> old version of QGIS, and the source package for some reason isn't the
> latest version of the plugin.
> I *think* the original authors may have abandoned the QGIS plugin in
> favour of a web-based system.
> However, there is a public fork of the latest version here, including a
> windows and a linux binary:
> https://github.com/mlt/PIHM/wiki
> I guess he must have contacted the authors to obtain the source.  He has
> cleaned up the file tree and done some fixes, including so that it
> builds with msvc, and doesn't violate the GPL.  (I wish I'd found this
> earlier, because I started doing the same thing...)
> 
> The plugin provides terrain analysis features similar to the TauDEM
> plugin for Mapwindow and ArcGIS (but without the fully automatic mode):
> pit removal, stream network and watershed delineation, etc.  
> It also runs the "Penn State Integrated Hydrologic Model", and can
> produce a number of time series and spatial plots of the results.
> 
> I recommend using the tutorial (and sample data) available on the web
> site:
> http://www.pihm.psu.edu/pihmgis_documents.html
> The built-in help documentation is the same, but is missing the
> pictures!
> This might also be useful:
> http://www.pihm.psu.edu/Downloads/Doc/pihm_input_file_format.pdf
> 
> There are a number of interesting papers which mention it, and often
> have a short description of QGIS itself, e.g.:
> 
> Community Hydrologic Model: Structure
> http://cuahsi.org/chymp/thurs/RMaxwell.ppt
> Multiphysics Modeling Implications for Environmental Observatories
> http://cuahsi.org/chymp/wed-am/CDuffy.pdf
> Model-Data Integration Framework: Watershed Reanalysis at the
> Susquehanna - Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory
> http://www.cuahsi.org/chymp/20110315/Presentation_CHyMP_2011_GBhatt_mode
> ldata.pdf
> An Object Oriented Shared Data Model for GIS and Distributed Hydrologic
> Models
> http://www.personal.psu.edu/muk139/KumarEtAl_DataModel_IJGIS.pdf
> The Role of Physical, Numerical and Data Coupling in a Mesoscale
> Watershed Model
> http://www.personal.psu.edu/muk139/Mukesh_PIHM_Dec01_2009.pdf
> 
> And this one doesn't mention it, but I know there are some people here
> interested in parallelization ;) :
> Domain Partitioning for Implementation of Large Scale Integrated
> Hydrologic Models on Parallel Processors
> http://www.personal.psu.edu/muk139/Mukesh_DP_Dec01_2009.pdf
> 
> Regards,
> Alister
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