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Code Development for CE-QUAL-W2 Geometry Tools
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New features: additional pre- and post-processing #13

Open jrutyna opened 1 year ago

jrutyna commented 1 year ago

Place holder issue for future feature development. Below are previous efforts by others to develop pre- and post-processors for CE-QUAL-W2:

Additional inspiration might be gained by exploring the work previously done by Portland State University, WMS, and DSI. https://www.cee.pdx.edu/w2/download.html https://cequalw2wiki.com/images/9/99/WMS_8.0_CE-QUAL-W2_Tutorial.pdf https://dsi.llc/eems/w2-tool

BillyEJohnson commented 1 year ago

I've asked Zhong before about pre and post processing tools used by him and PSU and didn't get the impression there was really anything there to speak of. I believe they have used TecPlot for some bathymetry generation and some utilities for plotting but not sure there is anything we want to pull into a QGIS Plug-In. Stewart Rounds (retired USGS) did demonstrate a tool that he has been developing during the recent W2 workshop in Denver so I would suggest we have a meeting with him to go over what he has done and see how much he would be willing to share.

For WMS, I know there is a tutorial of how to generate W2 bathymetry but I have not used it and that work was done many years ago so not sure if they ever finished it and if it would be useful for the current versions of W2. Worth trying it out to see though. Keep in mind that WMS is propretary so not sure how much of the underlying code we could get and how useful it may be.

For DSI, that post processor is propretary so other than serving as an example of capabilities that we may want to incorporate into our QGIS Plug-In that would be the extent of what we could get from it. Still worth having someone test it out to see what all they do and if there are some ideas that get generated for future development.