[GRASS-user] Another GRASS GIS 7.0 visualization: hydrologic model simulation animation

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All:

I thought some might be interested in seeing another hydrologic model simulation animation using GRASS GIS 7.0: http://vimeo.com/113855426 — Potomac River basin, RDHM simulation, 06/15/2006 - 07/11/2006 near Washington, DC.

In the near future, I’d like to create a 4-panel animation and include soil moisture and snow water equivalent and some higher resolution urban flooding movies as well.

Cheers!
Tom

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  Thomas Adams wrote:

All:

I thought some might be interested in seeing another hydrologic model
simulation animation using GRASS GIS 7.0: http://vimeo.com/113855426 — Potomac
River basin, RDHM simulation, 06/15/2006 - 07/11/2006 near Washington, DC.

Inspiring! Thanks for sharing this.

Nikos

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Jose,

The approach I took was very different. First of all:

(1) I’m using (Ubuntu) Linux – this makes the GRASS scripting easier, for me

(2) I used GRASS ps.map to generate postscript files, and then ps2pdf, which I convert to png images using ImageMagick convert

(3) since this was all scripted, it runs automatically – consists of two scripts; #1 controls the looping, #2 does all the GRASS GIS work and is called by #1

(4) the final (manual step, but I could have had it included in my script) was to follow the procedures found here http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Movies (thanks to Markus Neteler) to generate the movie from all the individual images

I’d be happy to provide my scripts if you care to see them.

Best,

Tom

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On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Moyano Capilla, Jose Eduardo <josmoy@ceh.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for your video! I write to you because I was trying to create something similar with the animation tool in GRASS 7.0 but I was unable. If I tried in Windows I get an error message and the program crashes down. If I try in Linux the program says that I need a codec, that I downloaded and installed but I shouldn’t do it properly because it’s still not working. How did you manage to do it? Did you had any problem?

Anyway, I gave up and I am working now with ArcGIS, where I get a result good enough for my purposes, but I would like to know if there is any trick or something, as I don’t what I was doing wrong.

Thanks in advance!

Jose

From: Thomas Adams [mailto:tea3rd@gmail.com]
Sent: 10 December 2014 22:16
To: grass-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [GRASS-user] Another GRASS GIS 7.0 visualization: hydrologic model simulation animation

All:

I thought some might be interested in seeing another hydrologic model simulation animation using GRASS GIS 7.0: http://vimeo.com/113855426 — Potomac River basin, RDHM simulation, 06/15/2006 - 07/11/2006 near Washington, DC.

In the near future, I’d like to create a 4-panel animation and include soil moisture and snow water equivalent and some higher resolution urban flooding movies as well.

Cheers!

Tom

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Jose,

The scripts are attached; please understand that I have to slightly modify the scripts each time I run them for a new location; this is something I need to improve.

Best,

Tom

(attachments)

genRDHMQMaps (8.7 KB)
makeRDHMImages (1.54 KB)

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On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Moyano Capilla, Jose Eduardo <josmoy@ceh.ac.uk> wrote:

Thank you very much!

If you don’t mind I would really appreciate to have those scripts to have a look to them. I think I still have a lot to learn J

Cheers,

Jose

From: Thomas Adams [mailto:tea3rd@gmail.com]
Sent: 11 December 2014 13:31
To: Moyano Capilla, Jose Eduardo; grass-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Another GRASS GIS 7.0 visualization: hydrologic model simulation animation

Jose,

The approach I took was very different. First of all:

(1) I’m using (Ubuntu) Linux – this makes the GRASS scripting easier, for me

(2) I used GRASS ps.map to generate postscript files, and then ps2pdf, which I convert to png images using ImageMagick convert

(3) since this was all scripted, it runs automatically – consists of two scripts; #1 controls the looping, #2 does all the GRASS GIS work and is called by #1

(4) the final (manual step, but I could have had it included in my script) was to follow the procedures found here http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Movies (thanks to Markus Neteler) to generate the movie from all the individual images

I’d be happy to provide my scripts if you care to see them.

Best,

Tom

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Moyano Capilla, Jose Eduardo <josmoy@ceh.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for your video! I write to you because I was trying to create something similar with the animation tool in GRASS 7.0 but I was unable. If I tried in Windows I get an error message and the program crashes down. If I try in Linux the program says that I need a codec, that I downloaded and installed but I shouldn’t do it properly because it’s still not working. How did you manage to do it? Did you had any problem?

Anyway, I gave up and I am working now with ArcGIS, where I get a result good enough for my purposes, but I would like to know if there is any trick or something, as I don’t what I was doing wrong.

Thanks in advance!

Jose

From: Thomas Adams [mailto:tea3rd@gmail.com]
Sent: 10 December 2014 22:16
To: grass-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [GRASS-user] Another GRASS GIS 7.0 visualization: hydrologic model simulation animation

All:

I thought some might be interested in seeing another hydrologic model simulation animation using GRASS GIS 7.0: http://vimeo.com/113855426 — Potomac River basin, RDHM simulation, 06/15/2006 - 07/11/2006 near Washington, DC.

In the near future, I’d like to create a 4-panel animation and include soil moisture and snow water equivalent and some higher resolution urban flooding movies as well.

Cheers!

Tom

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718 McBurney Drive
Lebanon, OH 45036

1 (513) 739-9512 (cell)

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Bob,

My two scripts are attached; I’m not sure how useful they will be to you since gridded xmrg output is required from the NOAA/NWS distributed hydrologic model, the RDHM, and NEXRAD based xmrg radar precipitation data, which is used as input to the RDHM. I ran the model in hindcast mode, using observed data only. The RDHM is/can be run in forecast mode.

It’s possible you can get data from the NOAA/NWS CNRFC located in Sacramento, if they run the RDHM — I don’t know.

Let me know if I can help further!

Tom

(attachments)

genRDHMQMaps (8.7 KB)
makeRDHMImages (1.54 KB)

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On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Moyano Capilla, Jose Eduardo <josmoy@ceh.ac.uk> wrote:

Thank you very much!

If you don’t mind I would really appreciate to have those scripts to have a look to them. I think I still have a lot to learn J

Cheers,

Jose

From: Thomas Adams [mailto:tea3rd@gmail.com]
Sent: 11 December 2014 13:31
To: Moyano Capilla, Jose Eduardo; grass-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Another GRASS GIS 7.0 visualization: hydrologic model simulation animation

Jose,

The approach I took was very different. First of all:

(1) I’m using (Ubuntu) Linux – this makes the GRASS scripting easier, for me

(2) I used GRASS ps.map to generate postscript files, and then ps2pdf, which I convert to png images using ImageMagick convert

(3) since this was all scripted, it runs automatically – consists of two scripts; #1 controls the looping, #2 does all the GRASS GIS work and is called by #1

(4) the final (manual step, but I could have had it included in my script) was to follow the procedures found here http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Movies (thanks to Markus Neteler) to generate the movie from all the individual images

I’d be happy to provide my scripts if you care to see them.

Best,

Tom

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Moyano Capilla, Jose Eduardo <josmoy@ceh.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for your video! I write to you because I was trying to create something similar with the animation tool in GRASS 7.0 but I was unable. If I tried in Windows I get an error message and the program crashes down. If I try in Linux the program says that I need a codec, that I downloaded and installed but I shouldn’t do it properly because it’s still not working. How did you manage to do it? Did you had any problem?

Anyway, I gave up and I am working now with ArcGIS, where I get a result good enough for my purposes, but I would like to know if there is any trick or something, as I don’t what I was doing wrong.

Thanks in advance!

Jose

From: Thomas Adams [mailto:tea3rd@gmail.com]
Sent: 10 December 2014 22:16
To: grass-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [GRASS-user] Another GRASS GIS 7.0 visualization: hydrologic model simulation animation

All:

I thought some might be interested in seeing another hydrologic model simulation animation using GRASS GIS 7.0: http://vimeo.com/113855426 — Potomac River basin, RDHM simulation, 06/15/2006 - 07/11/2006 near Washington, DC.

In the near future, I’d like to create a 4-panel animation and include soil moisture and snow water equivalent and some higher resolution urban flooding movies as well.

Cheers!

Tom

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–

Thomas E Adams, III
718 McBurney Drive
Lebanon, OH 45036

1 (513) 739-9512 (cell)