Software
Here's a list of software commonly used in the department. You may wish to add tips or questions to the program's wiki page.
Mac
- Dreamweaver -- HTML/CSS editing program
- Aptana -- HTML / CSS editing program with a different IDE from dreamweaver (some advantages for each)
- MS Office -- Excel, Powerpoint etc.
- fugu -- a nice GUI version of SFTP/SCP for the Mac
Linux
- Loggernet -- Campbell Scientific's data retrieval program
- Perl -- Handy programming/scripting language for all sorts of things
- Ruby -- A very object-oriented language we're just beginning to use
- Python -- Another programming/scripting language
- TopoFlow V3 -- Python version of TopoFlow
Windows
- Dreamweaver -- HTML/CSS editing program
- Aptana -- HTML / CSS editing program with a different IDE from dreamweaver (some advantages for each)
- MS Office -- Excel, Powerpoint etc.
- Adobe PDF tools -- Making PDFs (free alternatives also available)
- Adobe Photoshop -- Image Manipulation
- Adobe Illustrator -- Graphics creation
- Irfanview -- Image viewing program more flexible than the default Microsoft Image viewer
- Cygwin -- linux utilities for Windows
- Python -- available either through cygwin or as a standalone program.
- ArcGIS -- ESRI's GIS program - Visit the GINA page for the UAF license info: http://esrisitelicense.gina.alaska.edu/
- Putty -- Small suite of tools for doing SSH/SFTP/SCP
- SSH Secure Shell -- An alternative tool for doing SSH/SFTP
- Origin -- A fancy plotting & graph program
- Surfer -- A fancy plotting & graph program
- Perl -- Handy programming language for all sorts of things
- Loggernet -- Campbell Scientific's data retrieval program
- HBV -- Streamflow modeling, a rainfall-runoff program
- HBV-light -- Streamflow modeling, a monte carlo approach for parameter estimation
- RiverTools -- A program for getting for DEM and related files ready for input into TopoFlow
- TopoFlow -- Streamflow modeling, a physically based model originally written in IDL and currently being redone with python
- WinRiver II -- RDI discharge measurement software for use with RDI products
WERC in-house software development
- data-gathering system, written in Perl:
- Campbell::Comm -- perl module to interface Campbell CR10 loggers
- querylogger.pl -- query remote loggers
- loggerdata.pl -- automatic downloads from remote loggers
- WERC datasite architecture -- setup & conventions assumed by the above
- commserver -- provide connections to radio telemetry sites
- laboratory scale logger
- datasite -- object-oriented site and data management
- Excel Macros -- Handy Excel Macros useful for data processing etc.
- GP -- GWS/EEI developed html page generating program from DOT/DNR project
- Graphing -- GWS/EEI developed graph generating program from DOT/DNR project
