Tomorrow: What's New and What's Coming in HydroDesktop

Join us tomorrow, April 3, 2013 at 3 PM (Eastern) for the next installment of this Spring's HIS Cyberseminar Series. This week will feature Dr. Daniel P. Ames who leads the development of HydroDesktop at Brigham Young University:

HydroDesktop is the most widely used portal to the 95+ data sources registered in the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System (HIS). HydroDesktop is a free and open source Geographic Information System-based tool that enables searching, downloading, visualizing, and analyzing of hydrologic and climate data registered in the CUAHSI HIS. As a research and development project, the HydroDesktop team, led by Brigham Young University, periodically releases new iterations of the software which is driven by user defined bug reports and feature requests facilitated by a web based software management system at http://hydrodesktop.codeplex.com. Dr. Dan Ames, the HydroDesktop project lead, will discuss this open source development process, will also detail the newest features in the current recommended release, version 1.5.12, and will discuss proposed features proposed for 2013 and beyond. 

To attend, follow the link and dial into the conference line listed below:

http://cuahsi.adobeconnect.com/his/ 

Conference Line: (866) 244-8528

Participant Code: 391191

How Can I Find and Download Water Data?

The CUAHSI community has developed tools to discover and access data registered in the CUAHSI HIS Central Catalog. The two most commonly used clients are HydroDesktop and HydroExcel.

HydroDesktop is an open-source, GIS enabled, desktop application. It provides several capabilities including data query, map-based visualization, data download, graphing, and data export. The primary purpose for HydroDesktop is discovering and retrieving observational data from the HIS system and it is designed to be useful for a number of different groups of users with a wide variety of needs and skill levels including: university faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, K-12 students, engineering and scientific consultants, and others. HydroDesktop is an open source project; if you are interested in development of the software, visit the HydroDesktop Codeplex page!

HydroExcel is a macro-enabled Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet uses VBA macros and an object library called HydroObjects to communicate with and retrieve data from WaterOneFlow web services inside of Excel.

If you are a developer, be advised: You too can develop your own client that accesses data in the CUAHSI HIS as long as such a client can communicate with WaterOneFlow services!