- Engage in user centered design to create quick, incremental software releases and gather course correcting feedback.
- Work with domain experts to implement models, encode methodology and define techniques used to establish priorities in a decision making system.
- Open source licensing allows integration with existing open source work; available for review and verification; able to be adapted, reused and improved by other entities.
- Create software which combines data from multiple source and formats and allows advanced geospatial processing to do real time modeling and analysis
- Change parameters to alter assumptions around future scenarios and compare predictions between multiple proposed scenarios
- Allow the user to weight and prioritize certain data to account for local conditions
- Collecting and organizing high resolution and accurate datasets for input are crucial for the relevance of the system output
- DST for US Army Corps of Engineers
- Dozens of geospatial data layers with normalized scores about past, present and future climate scenarios
- Combined with spatial and operational details of existing water infrastructure
- Run analysis with user defined priorities (available budgets, infrastructure age, proximity to population centers, etc) to establish risk profiles for planning and budgeting scenarios
- US national scale spatial datasets on hydrography, topography, land use, soil types and climate.
- Collaborated with academic partners to implement multiple hydrologic models which estimate measures of watershed health.
- Users can alter data inputs to estimate impact of demographic changes, managed infrastructure improvements and climate changes on watershed health
- Run analysis on well known or user supplied geographies to get summaries of important statistical measures of an area for evaluation
- Users are able to export data to use in other expert systems and submit data for regulatory purposes.