A review of open source software solutions for developing water resources web applications

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 67, Issue , 2015, Pages 108-117

  Swain, Nathan R ^a   Latu, Kilisimasi ^b   Christensen, Scott D ^a   Jones, Norman L ^a   Nelson, E James ^a   Ames, Daniel P ^a   Williams, Gustavious P ^a  

^a Brigham Young University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

FOSS; FOSS4G; Water resources; Web app

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

FOSS; FOSS4G; FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; HYDROLOGIC SIMULATIONS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; STATE OF THE ART; WEB APP; WEB DEVELOPMENT;

WATER RESOURCES;

GIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL DATA; WATER RESOURCE; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84922340824     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.01.014     Document Type: Review

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