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. New to programming? This may be a good resource (in addition to web searches of course): http://software-carpentry.org/

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

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
• DataPro and related utilities -- Data processing engine useful
  • DataPro setup and workflow (related)
• Site Creator -- program to set up dirctories and key files for datapro processing

Other Specialized software

• MicroMet -- Suite of programs including SnowModel, SnowTran, and some data infilling / assimilating utilities.
• TopoFlow -- A physically based hydrologic model.
• Git Tips -- Bryan Johnson Write up