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TransectPlotter

screenshot of EDEN transect utility

EDEN TransectPlotter is a program for plotting daily water level surfaces and ground elevation profiles for user-specified transects across the Everglades. The water surface can be animated over a user-specified time period and the water surface slope is calculated and displayed along the transect for user-specified distances.

Location of nearby water level gaging stations can be indicated on the transect plot. The location of the gage in meters perpendicular to the transect line provides users with information about data that may have been used in development of the transect plot. The daily median output files must be reviewed to determine if gage data were available for the period of interest.

Additionally, user-provided observations of water level and water depth can be plotted on the transect for comparison with the EDEN water surface. The user-specified distance perpendicular to the transect identifies a selection criteria for observations that are plotted on the transect plot.

All water level and ground elevation data are output in units of North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88).

Note: the latest version of the TransectPlotter was modified to provide for the ability to select an output path for the slope output file. Please see the User's Guide (below) for more information.

Installation

You will need the following files:

Required for execution of the program:

(Note: if you previously installed other EDENapp tools, then you may have some or all of these items already installed)

  1. EDENTransect Plotter.exe (.zip, 229 KB, currently at v. 1.2 - updated July 24, 2008)
    • Executable file can be copied to any location on your computer
    • Runs only on 32-bit systems; 64-bit version currently in development
  2. List of EDEN stations and locations
    • Used to incorporate nearby gage locations on the transect plot
    • Filename must be stations.txt
    • Must be copied to folder containing the TransectPlotter.exe file
    • Included as part of the EDENTransectPlotter.zip file download
  3. netCDF dlls (.zip, 176 KB)
    1. Extract all the files in netcdf-3.6.1-win32.zip and copy them to c:\windows\system32
  4. Microsoft .Net version 2.0 (download from Microsoft's website)
    • Note: this may already be installed on your machine. Go to: Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs. If Microsoft .Net Framework is installed, it will appear in this list

Required User Input Files:

  1. EDEN DEM file for ground elevation (updated January 2010)
    • Must be in netCDF file format (.nc)
    • Please note: The released January 2010 data was modified in two ways:
      • First, elevation values have been converted from meters (m) to centimeters (cm)
      • Second, data has been removed from the southern Big Cypress National Preserve and northwestern Everglades National Park area so that this DEM boundary matches the boundary or domain of the EDEN surface-water model still in use in EDEN applications software. This is the area noted in yellow in the right-hand map below.
    • Metadata is also available for this DEM and has been included in the EDEN DEM zip file.
  2. EDEN daily water level surfaces (must be in NetCDF file format (.nc))
  3. Transect points file (see User's Guide below for more information)

User's Guide (pdf, 545 KB - updated February 11, 2010)

 

 

Notes:

  • EDEN TransectPlotter can only run on a Windows machine
  • The netCDF dll is required to use xyLocator. Extract all the files in netcdf-3.6.1-win32.zip and copy them to c:\windows\system32
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Last updated: March 11, 2013 01:34 PM(HSH)