Data Management and Analysis
An important element of IWRM modeling is management and processing of data. Data is the fundamental key to a successful representation of a system. Without proper data representation, the model is lost. I decided to do a quick search to see what people are using today. Doing simple Google searches on the various tools, I found HEC-DSSVue and Hydstra to be the most popular (assuming Internet search returns is a measure of popularity). Here are the search results: HEC-DSSVue => 320 unique results Hydstra => 390 unique results Aquarius => 100 unique results In looking at scholarly documents online, I was able to compare the 3 tools (shown above) by counting the different kinds of models these were used for. HEC-DSSVue seems to have been used most often for water resources and flood modeling, Aquarius for water resources and operations models, and Hydstra for water quality and runoff models. Table 1 summarizes the results from this comparison. As part of my research, I p...