Transcript Xitian Cai
A Critical Review of CUAHSI HydroDesktop CE 394K.2 Surface Water Hydrology Xitian Cai Center for Research in Water Resources University of Texas at Austin Contents • Development • In CUAHSI • Outside CUAHSI • Improvement • Conclusions 2 1. Web Service Development • Paper copy, Disk storage, Email, FTP, Web page • Web services – XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI • Desktop software – Integrated Data Viewer – HydroDesktop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_service) 3 2. Products in CUAHSI HIS • HydroGET • HydroExcel • HydroSeek • HydroDesktop 4 (To & Whiteaker, 2008) Active Web Service Information Text Learning about the web service Worksheet Shortcuts Example Web Services 7 Tutorial Advantage: combining all the features in previous products. Disadvantage: not easy to use, need a help document. Any Polygon 10 3. Products Outside CUAHSI HIS • Unidata (UCAR) – Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) – Local Data Manager (LDM) – THREDDS –… • Environmental Data Connector (NOAA) 11 12 13 14 3. Outside CUAHSI Summary • Integrated Data Viewer (IDV ) – Deals with satellite and radar data – Display animation, 3D view • Environmental Data Connector – Easy to use – An extension in ArcGIS • HydroDesktop – Comprehensive – Specialize in hydrology and environmental 15 4. Suggestions for Improvement • Minor changes • Base Model 16 USGS EROS Data Center Arc Hydro USGS Streamflow dataBase Model (Base Map, Structure & Data) USDA Soils Data Setting up HydroModeler → HydroDesktop download data automatically. National Land Cover Institute National Climate Data Center Nexrad stage III precipitation data (Figures from AGWA model) 17 Model structure and data needed. Base Model USGS EROS Data Center National Land Cover Institute Offers everyone a model. Saves users’ time for their research DEM interests. Download to Database Standard. Land use HydroDesktop … Base Model USDA Soil data Soil Delineate & Link maps together Precipitation National Climate Data Center Nexrad stage III precipitation data 18 5. Conclusions • Integrates the products in CUAHSI project • Has more features than some other likewise products • Base model for everyone • Future work – More suggestions – Report 19 Thank you! Questions?