Public prototype and monthly update
+July 14, 2021
+ + +In case you wondered where your beloved monthly update is, it was delayed due to +us working on a big announcement:
+We released version 0.5 +our so called public prototype.
+So now why is this big? (Apart from being a project milestone, which you couldn’t +care less about I guess)
+This is the first release that is being tested for +application in operational hazard mapping.
+To achieve this, quite a few things changed:
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Version 0.4 saw us switching to our own code for the dense flow module +com1DFA. The original module is still available, but our development efforts +will now focus on the new one.
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With version 0.5 we completely overhauled and updated the documentation to include things +like:
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- updated descriptions of the modules +
- installation instructions for Windows +
- new DFA algorithm description page +
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We created a new repository for the +connection between QGis and AvaFrame. This means you can run our operational +workflow from inside QGis. It is a setup for running com1DFA (dense flow) and +com2AB (alpha beta), in which you can change +release thicknesses and run multiple scenarios, but the rest of the setup is +according to our current default setup.
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and many more functional changes under the hood, see the main ones in our +release notes.
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Together with C. Tollinger (Fachzentrum f. Geologie und Lawinen, WLV) we +developed a visualisation of the main peak variables based on colormaps that +works better for people with vision deficiencies (e.g. red/green blindness). +These plots now work for normal vision, red/green deficiency and in grayscale. +See examples for the test case ALR at the end of this post.
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We invite you to give this version a try, but expect some rough edges. +But whatever you do, enjoy your summer (or your winter for the southern +hemisphere guys out there)!
+Signing out for summer, +Felix
+Peak flow depth
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Peak flow pressure
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Peak flow velocity
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