Geographic Information System (GIS) - DeskTop S/W - Kalypso
Kalypso – Uses Java and GML3. Focuses mainly on numerical simulations in water management.
Kalypso is an open source modelling program. It focuses on numerical simulations in water management and ecology such as the generation of inundation and flood risk maps by hydrologic and hydrodynamic models and GIS functionality.
The Kalypso software system has been collaboratively developed in a joint project by the company Björnsen Consulting Engineers (BCE) and the department for river and coastal engineering at Hamburg University of Technology, Germany. It is available for download at SourceForge.net under the GNU LGPL.
Kalypso is currently (November 2010) divided into six modules: three numerical simulation modules, two tools for complex flood and risk mapping and an evacuation tool.
- Kalypso Hydrology (rainfall-runoff simulation)
- Kalypso WSPM (one-dimensional steady hydrodynamic simulation)
- Kalypso 1D/2D (coupled one- and two-dimensional unsteady hydrodynamic simulation)
- Kalypso Flood (flood mapping tool)
- Kalypso Risk (flood risk assessment tool)
- Kalypso Evacuation (evacuation strategy tool)
The modules are based on a common modelling framework called KalypsoBASE and are published as open source software under the LGPL license. KalypsoBASE itself is a collection of Eclipse plug-ins and can be easily extended to provide new and independent modules.
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