What is HydroPlatform ?

HydroPlatform is an open-source software platform for water resource management models. The tool is general and works with network (node-link) models in any field (transport, energy, trade, ...).

The program manages and displays model inputs and outputs. It can be loosely (export functions) or tightly (add-ins) coupled with models. This allows running models independently or from within the model platform.

Project objectives

Make models easier to build, use and share

Help modelers focus on model development, not data management and visualization

Facilitate collaboration in model building and use

Software goals

Efficiently create, manage, verify and visualize model data

Intuitive graphical user-interface run by object-oriented code

Maintain generality and independence from specific models and software

Use open-source components for maintainability, transparency and to lower costs

Project structure

The software will be managed as an international open-source software project with a design team.  Software downloads and source code will be available on the project website subject to having registered and accepted the terms and conditions of the General Public License. Version 1.0 will be implemented by a contractor. Contractor task orders for official supported releases are approved by the design team. A University College London (UCL) Research Challenge Grant awarded to Julien Harou and UCL colleagues is currently providing seed funding.