[Qgis-user] RE: setup qgis for flood modeling

[Michael Spencer]

Hi Stephen,

I don't think you've had a reply from elsewhere yet... QGIS isn't really the right software to do all of what you're after. It can certainly help you prepare data to build a hydraulic model and then map the outputs. But it can't convert flow into a level, you need hydraulic modelling software for this (unless you're very brave and fancy writing a plugin to estimate level from Manning's equation along a reach, but this would be quite approximate).

Depending on what you want to model there are a number of free tools out there:

ANUGA, 2D model which is FOSS
HEC RAS/HMS 1D model/hydrological model, free but not FOSS
and others

Hope this starts you on the path.
Michael

> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 11:37:30 +1000
> From: steve sgalowski <steve.sgalowski at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Qgis-user] setup qgis for flood modeling
> 
>  how do i go about setting up qgis 1.6  for flood modeling
> with wind horizontal , wind shear , rain , and river data ,  barometer .
> with time and dates .
> 
> stephen galowski
 		 	   		  
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