Software
Revision as of 11:37, 3 October 2012 by 137.229.92.251 (talk)
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
 - Topcon ImageMaster Photo -- DEM Creation tool
 
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