| Andrea Emilio Rizzoli
IDSIA Galleria 2 CH - 6928 Manno Switzerland |
Environmental Modelling Resources
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Last update: 29 March 2004
| This is a list for the reader interested in modelling, simulation and the environment. It was thought as a companion to the a presentation titled Software tools and techniques to model environmental systems: a review by Andrea Rizzoli and Bill Young (click here for an online presentation), delivered on the 5th of September 1996 at Land and Water, CSIRO in Canberra. | Since 1996 many things have happened, and yet I haven't prepared a new version of that talk. Only recently (19-25 March 2004) I have been invited by the LEQUIA, University of Girona to deliver a short course on EDSS.
The underlying idea was to talk about how EDSS can be used to support decision making and the lectures start from basic decision theory, trying to explain how we can write models to formulate decision problems. Solving the problem can be done using Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence techniques. All these techniques should be packaged into an EDSS and delivered to the Decision Maker. Here you can find the PDF of the lectures:
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| Taking decisions | A short introduction to decision making and the role of EDSS |
| Modelling environmental systems | From problems to models |
| Operations research, scenario analysis and heuristic methods | Solving a decision problem, exploring the search space |
| Artificial intelligence | Learning from experience, machine learning, rule-based and case-based reasoning |
| DSS, EDSS and Modelling Environments | Packaging environmental science and knwoledge |
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Environmental Decision Support Systems (EDSS)
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| GAIA: environmental model inventory | This project, led by K. Fedra's ESS, aims at creating a world wide network of environmental models accessible from the Web. It includes the GAIA model base (developed by G. Guariso at the Politecnico di Milano). |
| The Desert Model | A DSS for water quality management in river streams, developed at IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria. |
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Resource locators
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| Software - Hydrology | A list of hydrological software |
| Seepage/Groundwater Modeling Software | Another software list, maintained by the ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers). |
| ASCE's Civil Engineering database | ASCE'S Electronic Information Retrieval Service to All Its Publications Published since 1975. The CEDB Provides Access to over 80,000 Bibliographic and abstracted Records |
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In the news
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| sci.geo.eos | Newsgroup on Earth Observation Science |
| sci.geo.lakes-and-rivers | A newsgroup dedicated to modelling and management of water resources. |
| Engineering newsgroups on the USENET | A searchable database which contains the articles appeared in the engineering groups of the USENET |
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Some software packages for environmental modelling
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This is a really short and limited list of some software packages which are good examples of useful tools for the environmental modeller |
| ECGL Home Page | ECGL stands for Engineering Computer Graphics Lab. The makers of GMS (Groundwater Modelling System) and of WMS (Watershed Modelling System) and other programs for hydrologic simulation. |
| Groundwater Vistas | A graphical interface to MODFLOW and other widely known and used groundwater modelling and simulation software programs. |
| GMS- Groundwater Modeling System (v2.0) | It is a graphical interface to various groundwater simulation programs like FEMFLOW, etc. It enables the modeller to select various program to solve different problems while maintaining a consistent graphical user interface. |
| Distributed Modular Spatial Ecosystem Modeling | A software environment for distributed simulation of ecosystems, based on the World Dynamics approach to simulation. |
| Hydromantis home page: GPS-X | Simworks and GPS-X simulation software targeted towards simulation of hydrological phenomena. |
| PC Swmm | A graphical interface to SWMM, the stormwater management model. |
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Model integration
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Model integration is the Holy Grail of environmental modellers in the year 2000 :-). A huge number of models has been developped: how can they talk and interact? There are many answers, but which one will be the right one? |
| TUDelft |
Model integration at the Delft Technical University. Decision support systems for Water Management Water Allocation in TransboundaryRiver Basins during Low Flows |
| University of Texas, Austin |
Hydrologic Modeling using GIS |
| Argonne Laboratories |
Argonne National Laboratory - DEEM High Level Architecture Page the HLA is gaining acceptance in the simulation community. |
| DoD (Department of Defense, USA) |
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| CADSWES ad Colorado University, Boulder |
This Colorado based group has tight contacts with Colorado University and many modelling related projects are currently under development. |
| IDS Group at Colorado State, Denver |
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| ESS Austria |
A paper by K. Fedra on model integration. A Water Resources Management Information System |
| University of Manitoba |
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| International Institute for Ecological Economics (University of Maryland) |
Robert Costanza and Thomas Maxwell |
| Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Melbourne) | Research Integration Project |
| Model integration in the Operations Research, Management Science fields |
Some thinking on model management by Singapore University. Some interesting links and a useful bibliography too. MDL & Simlab. A paper which describes the promises of MDL (Model Description Language) |