The first paper "The Modular Modeling System (MMS): A Toolbox for Enviormental-Resource Management" describes the system that the USGS created to integrate it various models. The system is a sort of development environment where a complex model is made by linking the input and output of many smaller models.
The second paper "Streamflow Forecasting Using the Modular Modeling System and an Object-User Interface" describes the creation of a watershed model using the MMS system.
Nasa probably want a system similar to the MMS designed and implemented for their various models. Which would be software development and not research at all.
Posted by: Donald Johnson
| @ November 29, 2006 1:25:15 PM CST ( ) |
The paper describes a method of a determining watersheds by coloring a DEM using a map of divergence of flow directions. The rendering process is not complicated and the only unusually thing being used to determine coloring. The image resulting form this is then manually segmented into basins. task that the coloring makes fairly trivial. The only prospective research is developing an algorithm that automates the last part and comparing it to existing basin delineation programs. This is not a Visualization problem.
Posted by: Donald Johnson
| @ November 29, 2006 1:06:17 PM CST ( ) |
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