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What is OpenEarth?

OpenEarth is a free and open source initiative to deal with Data, Models and Tools in marine & coastal engineering projects. In current practice, research, consultancy and construction projects commonly spend a significant part of their budget to setup some basic infrastructure for data and knowledge management. Most of these efforts disappear again once the project is finished. As an alternative to these ad-hoc approaches, OpenEarth aims for a more continuous approach to data & knowledge management. It provides a platform to archive, host and disseminate high quality data, state-of-the-art model systems and well-tested tools for practical analysis. Through this project-superseding approach, marine & coastal engineers and scientists can learn from experiences in previous projects and each other. This may lead to considerable efficiency gains, both in terms of budget and time. The following 2 papers describes the OpenEarth approach in more detail: NCK 2012 & WODCON 2010.

Within the OpenEarth community two types of users can be distinguished: 1) OpenEarth users and 2) OpenEarth developers.

OpenEarth users

OpenEarth users are particularly interested in using data, models and tools that have become available through OpenEarth for project purposes. For these users easily installable software packages as well as user manuals and tutorials are available in the OpenEarth Product Suite. An explanation on how to get access to data is given in the Getting started section.

OpenEarth developers

OpenEarth developers participate actively in the dissemination of new datasets and model systems and the development & improvement of all kinds of handy tools. If you wanna be an OpenEarth developer, please follow this link to learn about the five easy steps to become an OpenEarth developer.

Background information

More background information on OpenEarth can be found here.

Acknowledgements

OpenEarth is, amongst others, supported by the concerted effort of professionals from Deltares (formerly Delft Hydraulics), Delft University of Technology's Hydraulic Engineering and Environmental Fluid Mechanics sections, Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors, Arcadis-Alkyon and UNESCO-IHE. It is currently the central platform for data and knowledge management in the research programmes Delft Cluster - Northsea and Coast, Building with Nature and MICORE.

Quick links

  Getting started
How to access free data & tools 		 
  Google Earth gallery
data visualisations in Google Earth TM 		 
  OpenEarth Product Suite
Released software packages 		 
  Join OpenEarth
Access to the OpenEarthTools repository 		 
  Links
OpenEarths approach to knowledge 		 


News

Blog Posts

  • Blog post: Sea level trends created by
    Fedor Baart
    13-05-2012
    Fedor Baart
  • Blog post: Real time CFD in an interactive sanbox environment created by
    Thijs Damsma
    07-05-2012
    OpenEarth
  • Blog post: Speeding up Matlab and Handling Large Datasets created by
    Giorgio Santinelli
    03-05-2012
    OpenEarth
  • Blog post: Aeolian transport at EGU 2012 created by
    Fedor Baart
    28-04-2012
    Fedor Baart
  • Blog post: Compiling dunexbeach under Windows created by
    Fedor Baart
    20-02-2012
    Fedor Baart
  • Blog post: NCK sprintsession march 13th coastal data in google earth created by
    Gerben de Boer
    10-02-2012
    OpenEarth
  • Blog post: Kustlijnkaarten 2012 created by
    Giorgio Santinelli
    09-01-2012
    OpenEarth
  • Blog post: Creating illuminated lines created by
    Fedor Baart
    03-01-2012
    Fedor Baart
  • Blog post: sprintsession 2 dec on OPeNDAP, Google Earth, OGC services created by
    Gerben de Boer
    11-11-2011
    OpenEarth
  • Blog post: KNMI and Deltares organize OPeNDAP server side workshop in NMDC created by
    Gerben de Boer
    09-11-2011
    OpenEarth
  • Blog post: Calling fortran from python created by
    Fedor Baart
    23-10-2011
    Fedor Baart
  • Blog post: Reconstructing an 18th century storm using paintings created by
    Fedor Baart
    20-10-2011
    Fedor Baart
  • Blog post: Dutch national science foundation NWO requires scientist to open up their data created by
    Gerben de Boer
    14-10-2011
    OpenEarth
  • Blog post: OpenEarthTools OpenDelft3D GoogleEarth plotting session Nov 2nd created by
    Gerben de Boer
    14-10-2011
    OpenEarth
  • Blog post: Mini-symposium Nederlandse Commissie voor Geodesie created by
    Fedor Baart
    12-10-2011
    Fedor Baart


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