Open Source for Water Management: including capabilities of MODFLOW-OWHM in the FREEWAT GIS modelling environment
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Spatial and Geographic Information Systems, Software Engineering
- Keywords
- water management, GIS, numerical modeling, groundwater modeling
- Copyright
- © 2016 Bosi et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. Open Source for Water Management: including capabilities of MODFLOW-OWHM in the FREEWAT GIS modelling environment. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2209v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2209v1
Abstract
FREEWAT is an ongoing GIS environment to serve as pre- and post-processor for running simulations of surface-/groundwater interaction, with the possibility to activate several features accounting for the different water stresses. This paper reports the capability related to address water resource management problems, by activating management tools available in the MODFLOW-OWHM code. The latter is integrated in FREEWAT, which appears as composite plugin of the well-know QGIS software (QGIS, 2016). Therefore, all the necessary pre- and post-process procedures can be run effectively within QGIS, also in conjunction with the several tools for GIS analysis already included in QGIS. It turns out a simple and intuitive user interface to manage the simulation of complex problem in which the mutual interaction among surface waters, groundwaters and anthropic water demand/supply terms can be handled. The development phase of such tools is already at an advanced stage, while next work will be focused on producing real-world applications to serve as tutorial for interest Users.
Author Comment
Development release of FREEWAT modeling platform