[Qgis-developer] Hydrological toolbox

[Sjur Kolberg]

Hello,

We have been working on a hydrological toolbox ENKI since 2002, for the Norwegian hydropower producer Statkraft.

Statkraft has recently decided to release ENKI under LGPL. At this time, however, there is no established OS project (WEB site, mailing list, core committer group etc). I'd be happy to see ENKI developing an interface with QGIS and other Open Source GIS tools.

ENKI is a spatio-temporal model building framework, in which a model is built up from subroutines compiled as dll plugins. Although developed for distributed hydrological models, ENKI poses no restrictions on what the routines do, as long as they're happy with being called once for each time step. The interface between subroutines are GIS variables; either rasters or point networks. ENKI validates the model setup and provides all the administration to initialise, calibrate and run the model.

Having used MFC during the development, ENKI is so far tied to commercial Visual Studio versions. I am hoping for resources to get rid of that dependency. The GUI and core are separated, so it should be possible to call the EnkiAPI.dll from other software.

ENKI was presented at EGU2012 in Vienna, and only the lack of an open data set to go with it as tutorial, is delaying its distribution. We are working on that, hoping to get ready within the coming week. I haven't really looked into the different possibilites for how to deploy or manage an Open Source project, suggestions are welcome.

Best regards,

Sjur K :-)



From: qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Ian Packham
Sent: 4. mai 2012 15:29
To: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org; Robert Szczepanek
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Hydrological toolbox

Hi Robert

Werner wrote the original Wiki page, I just got the idea of a Hydrological toolbox from the other post. However there seem to be a few people interested in the idea, so hopefully we can pool our resources to achieve this.

Regards

Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Szczepanek <robert at szczepanek.pl>
Date: Friday, May 4, 2012 1:43 pm
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Hydrological toolbox
To: Ian Packham <i.packham at ucd.ie>

> Hi Ian,
>
> "The idea is to use QGIS as a platform for pre/post process GIS
> input to hydrologic and hydraulic models ..."
> Wrapping existing model to work within QGIS is very good idea.
> But I would go much further, and start building hydrological
> models within QGIS.
>
> Just shortly - I'm very interested in cooperation with you (and
> your team). "QGIS/GRASS based hydrology" is my scientific plan
> for next 2-3 years.
> So we can join forces ... writing code and scientific papers.
>
> regards,
> Robert
>
> W dniu 04.05.2012 13:15, Ian Packham pisze:
> >A similar methodology could apply to developing the related
> Hydrological>toolbox
> >(http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-
> gis/Hydrology_and_Hydraulic_modelling). I
> >would also be interested in contributing to such a toolbox and
> using any
> >available models.
> >
> >I am wary of writing plugin code (as I have started to do) when
> someone>else may have produced or know of plugins that have
> useful functionality
> >for water related modelling or, in particular, analysing and
> mixing GIS
> >layers for a catchment management tool.
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Ian
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