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CatchmentSIM Training, Aquaplaning & 2D Modelling
by Chris Ryan - Monday, 10 May 2010, 06:50 PM
 

Upcoming CatchmentSIM Training

We are pleased to announce upcoming CatchmentSIM training courses in Melbourne (31 May & 1 June), Sydney (7 & 8 June) and Brisbane (15 & 16 June). Please refer to our Training Brochure and Registration form for more details and to register.

We also have a special offer for potential new users, attend one of our training courses and you will receive:

  • One or two day face to face CatchmentSIM training in a small group
  • A 30 day trial licence for CatchmentSIM to take back to your organisation
  • 30 days access to our online training portal
  • A potential rebate of 50% of the cost of the training course towards any subsequent CatchmentSIM purchase.
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12d Model Aquaplaning Assessment

CatchmentSIM can now be used to help automate the identification of aquaplaning risk areas in 12d Model road design surfaces. Specifically, CatchmentSIM can automatically identify the water film depth and critical flow paths over a project TIN (based on equal area slope, texture depth and rainfall intensity) and export them back to 12d with depth, slope and length attached as attributes. Please see the following quick demonstration or our Aquaplaning Brochure for more information.

CatchmentSIM users are invited to download the CatchmentSIM 2.4 Beta and give the aquaplaning algorithm a whirl.

Following our presentation at the 12d Model conference in Brisbane, we’ve also had a lot of requests from potential new users for trials of the aquaplaning algorithm so we have added this capability to our standard 30 day trial package. Please contact us if you would like access the 30 day trial software.

Aquaplaning Depth

CatchmentSIM 2D Modelling Beta Testing

We have recently developed the first cut of an integrated 2D hydrologic modelling system within CatchmentSIM using the GSSHA software. CatchmentSIM now includes all the tools necessary to setup event based hydrologic models including rainfall, loss rates, 1D channel elements and more, directly within the CatchmentSIM GUI. You may like to read our recent conference paper on the topic.

Our newly released CatchmentSIM 2.4 Beta includes the GSSHA interface and we invite CatchmentSIM users to try the model. Please contact us and we will give you access to the 2D Modelling Beta Tester's web page where you can access all the relevant support materials.

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Catchment Simulation Solutions

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2D Hydrologic Modelling and music 4 Integration
by Chris Ryan - Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 04:48 PM
 

We would like to announce a couple of exciting opportunities for current and potential CatchmentSIM users.

Integrated 2D Hydrologic Modelling – Beta Testers Welcome

We have recently developed the first cut of an integrated 2D hydrologic modelling system within CatchmentSIM using the GSSHA software. CatchmentSIM now includes all the tools necessary to setup event based hydrologic models including rainfall, loss rates, 1D channel elements and more, directly within the CatchmentSIM GUI. You may like to read our recent conference paper on the topic.

We are very excited by the early promise shown by GSSHA to perform well in comparison to traditional Australian lumped models. However, we really need a lot more data to make any conclusions. That’s where we need your help!

We are inviting interested users to participate in a Beta Testing program to test this model on Australian catchments. For more information, please visit our Beta Testing website. You will need to login to view this page, if you have forgotten your password, click here.

This invitation is open to current users as well as interested persons who are not current CatchmentSIM users (software will be made available for the Beta period).

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Integration with music 4

We are pleased to announce that with the cooperation of eWater, we have developed an integration framework between CatchmentSIM and music 4. This allows catchment areas, impervious proportions, drainage links and landuse characterisation to be developed in CatchmentSIM and then imported directly in music. A brochure and short video documenting this feature can be found on our website.

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CatchmentSIM 2.3 Released
by Chris Ryan - Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 05:26 PM
 

CSS is pleased to announce that CatchmentSIM 2.3 is now available to new and existing customers.

Some of the many improvements in this version include:

    Smoothing of Streams and Subcatchments

CatchmentSIM becomes one of the only terrain analysis models in the world to support native smoothing of streams and subcatchments whilst preserving topology (ensuring neighbouring boundaries match).

This can result in more accurate stream length and slope calculations (typically 10-15% shorter length and thus increased slope).

    User Parameters

Allows user defined parameters (half way down page) to be added to a project including in the subcatchment manager form, GIS & KML exports and CST scripts
These can take the form of zonal statistics or macro scripts.
For example, add a 'Manning's n' parameter to a project based on zonal statistics of a Land Use layer.

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Smoothed subcatchments (red) and streams (blue) displayed over unsmoothed polylines.

    GSDM PMP Calculations

CatchmentSIM now includes an integrated calculator for GSDM PMP Rainfall
Automated application of GSDM Spatial Distribution and calculation of average subcatchment PMP rainfall depths
Automated calculation of roughness grid

   

    Support for additional Vector Formats

Support (read only) for new vector file formats including DGN (Microstation), TAB (Mapinfo), MDB (ESRI personal geodatabase).

    Speed Improvements

Significant speed improvements in Load / Save and Display of contour, stream and ITL layers
500% improvement in Load/Save of layers
200% improvement in display of layer, particularly when zoomed
Significant speed improvement have been made in displaying external vector GIS files, specifically:
200% speed improvement in loading the file
500% speed improvement in drawing the file
Option to trim (Douglas Peuckers) complex polylines within a tolerance for highly detailed contour or streamline datasets

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GSDM PMP Ellipses shown over subcatchment breakup.

 

Other

Average Vectored Slope values for each subcatchment are now faster and can account for smoothing. However, please be aware that a new parameter 'Slope Sampling Density' has been added to the Project Options form. Now instead of doing a slope calculation for every perimeter pixel and weighting by length. Only a maximum of this density (default 50) will be analysed. This has been done to speed up the model, particularly if smoothing is turned on.
Setup a project based on a Google Earth display
Numerous bug fixes and improvements.

Please don't hesitate to contact us for more information.

Regards,

Catchment Simulation Solutions

www.csse.com.au
Sydney: +61 2 9232 7337
Canberra: +61 2 6251 0002


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