HydroDesktop

HydroDesktop will be free software that operates on a user’s desktop computer, with the intent of serving as a common entry point into data resources published using the CUAHSI HIS WaterOneFlow web services. HydroDesktop will consolidate many key capabilities of existing HIS tools (e.g., data query, map-based visualization, data download, local data maintenance, data editing, data visualizing, and linkage with integrated modeling systems such as OpenMI).

Intended Use

HydroDesktop is intended to solve the problem of how to obtain, organize, and manage hydrologic data on a user’s computer to support analysis and modeling. HydroDesktop will be a platform for the integration of hydrologic data, which can be used in analysis applications such as R, MATLAB, and Excel, or in custom code developed by the end user. The HydroDesktop design paradigm includes the use of a plug-in architecture and data abstraction layer that will allow extension of the core functionality. HydroDesktop will provide local access to data obtained from distributed data services that are part of the Internet-based, SOA that the CUAHSI HIS project has developed for the sharing of hydrologic data.

Target Users for HydroDesktop

It is anticipated that HydroDesktop users will include university faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, K-12 students, engineering and scientific consultants, and others. HydroDesktop users may or may not have a technical scientific or computer science background. It is expected that these users will be primarily interested in discovering and retrieving observational data from the HIS system for use in software installed on their local computer.

Resources

• HIS Desktop Functional Specifications [PDF; 1.8M] (please note the former name for HydroDesktop was HIS Desktop)
• HydroDesktop Website