[Qgis-developer] Announcing ENKI (Was: Hydrological toolbox)

Tue Oct 2 04:00:38 PDT 2012

Dear QGIS list,

Finally, we have managed to put together a WEB site and download option for ENKI.

ENKI is a software framework for building and running environmental models; motivated by, but not restricted to distributed hydrological models. Within ENKI, you can assemble a model from a set of subroutines, which are separately built as dll plugins. ENKI comes with a selection of these dlls, and developers can easily add new ones to their library. 

The address is www.opensource-enki.org, and the download area is at a Google Disk page:
https://drive.google.com/?authuser=0#folders/0B3AI0j0BFI0-blBTSmM3U1JPMlU

You need to log in using a Google account.
ENKI is developed by SINTEF Energy Research, paid by Statkraft; and it is released under LGPL.

Our experience with running OS projects and the associated WEB infrastructure is highly limited, so please have patience...

Best regards,
Sjur Kolberg, SINTEF Energy Research
Oddbjørn Bruland, Statkraft

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Werner Macho [mailto:werner.macho at gmail.com]
> Sent: 10. mai 2012 09:09
> To: Sjur Kolberg
> Cc: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org; Bruland Oddbjørn
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Hydrological toolbox
> 
> Hi Sjur!
> 
> Yes I am still on it an still want to prepare something like an hydrological
> toolbox ..
> So far we do not have anything "real" working .. but I know that some people
> are already working behind the scenes on some plugins which I hope that later
> can be integrated in this toolbox.
> 
> From my point I have to say that I never heard of ENKI (shame on me) and
> allthough I am from Vienna I even did not realise that it was presented here
> ..
> Is there already anything public available to take a look at? If you need any
> information about QGIS or integrating plugins into QGIS just ask..
> I think your plugin will be more then welcome to extend the possibilites of
> QGIS.
> 
> thanks a lot
> kind regards
> Werner
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Sjur Kolberg <Sjur.A.Kolberg at sintef.no>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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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