Mariculture AquaModel

AquaModel Features

Displays

• Coast line data from many sources including
• World Data Bank (WDB-II)
• World Vector Shoreline (WVS)
• ArcShape files
• Detailed bathymetry
• Satellite imagery (over 50 formats)
• Navigation charts
• Multimedia
• User defined GIS points, lines, and shapes
• Profile plots (single or multiple trace, histograms, pie-charts, false color charts)
• Blob (bubble) plots
• Contours
• Current vectors
• Tidal ellipses
• Metadata
• Instant web deployment
• Google Maps
• Google Earth

Modeling Capabilities

• Ocean currents
  • 2-D, 3-D, or merged
• Constant or dynamically changing ambient conditions data
• Modeled dissolved materials:
  • oxygen
  • nitrogen
  • phytoplankton
  • zooplankton
• Modeled fish farm waste materials:
  • feed
  • fecal
• Modeled benthic materials:
  • Suspended layer:
    • feed waste
    • fecal waste
    • oxygen
  • Sediment layer:
    • feed waste
    • fecal waste
    • oxygen, hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide
    • aerobic and anaerobic biomass
• Multispecies capability
• Default characteristics of several commercially important species included
• Animated plan and profile displays
• Dissolved, suspended, and sediment materials
• Surface and bottom flow velocities
• Fecal and feed waste streams
• Fish pen and waste stream properties

Analysis tools

• Statistical analysis of imagery
• 3-D perspective charts
• Query measurement, bathymetry, and imagery
• Computed water volume within a user specified region (e.g. bays)
• Built in Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
• Levenberg-Marquardt multi-dimensional surface search routine
• Kernel method 3-dimensional density function calculation
• USGS 3-D earth magnetic model (intensity, declination, and magnitude)
• 3-D current drift model
• Fast Fourier transforms
• A variety of standard statistical functions

Simulation

• User defined simulation times (start, end, direction, and step)
• Simulation capture and replay capability
• Animate imported satellite images and ArcShape files
• Animate blob plots, false color images, and profile plots of measurement data
• Play/step forward or backward or skip to specified simulation times (where compatible with simulation model)

Import Tools

• Database wizard imports ASCII, Excel, or database measurement data
• ASCII wizard imports ASCII geographic measurement data to false color raster images
• Batch importing of satellite imagery and aerial photographs

Export and Conversion Tools

• Export modeled properties to Excel for offline analysis
• Convert animated project data (graphic plan view and profile plots) to GoogleMaps or GoogleEarth
• Export animated displays to NetCDF image format files
• Export graphic displays to BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, or TIFF files
• Subset and convert imagery files in any supported format to NetCDF image format
• Convert ArcShape data to Excel
• Integrated with "R" for interactive or off-line analysis of image or profile plot data