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The sustainable interaction between mankind and the dynamic natural system provides a great number of hydraulic and environmental engineering challenges. The paradigm to confront these challenges one-project-at-a-time, while attractive from a budget management perspective, results in grave inefficiencies in the development and maintenance of the basic elements that are invariably involved: *Data*data, *Models*models and *Tools*tools. 

Hardly any project is by itself of sufficient scale to comprehensively develop easy accessible high quality data archives, state-of-the-art model systems and well tested practical analysis tools under version control. As a result research and consultancy projects commonly spend a significant part of their budget to set-up some basic infrastructure, most of which dissipates again once the project is finished.  

OpenEarth is the open source intiative to archive, host and disseminate *Data*, *Models* and *Tools* for marine & coastal scientist and engineers that aims to remedy the above-described inefficiencies by providing a project-superceding approach. 

To facilitate steady and continuous development and growth of these building blocks even beyond the man-made boundaries of projects [Subversion repositories|http://subversion.tigris.org/] are utilised for storage, back-up and version control of raw data, scripts and source code. Products are shared freely via various web based tools. As a result research and consultancy projects no longer need to waste money by repeatedly starting from scratch, rather they can build on the preserved efforts from many projects before them.

h3. [News|Open Earth News]

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h3. OpenEarth Services
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| {lozenge:icon=!lozenges.png!|title=Data|link=Data|color=green|width=250px}svn repository with the OpenEarthRawData{lozenge} |
|| Models ||
| {lozenge:icon=!lozenges.png!|title=Models|link=Models|color=green|width=250px}svn repository with the OpenEarthModel{lozenge}|
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| {lozenge:icon=!lozenges.png!|title=Tools|link=Tools|color=green|width=250px}svn repository with the OpenEarthTools{lozenge} |
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