Large Scale Hydrology: Geocomputational tools that you use

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/Hydrology

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  • Dask

    Parallel computing with task scheduling

  • We're using a lot of Python. In addition to these, gridMET, Dask, HoloViz, and kerchunk.

  • pysheds

    :earth_americas: Simple and fast watershed delineation in python.

  • For dem processing, taudem5 has a cli and arcgis toolbox and supposedly supports clusters for large problems. The gdal tools do not have a watershed tool afaik, but handle large datasets well and and can be called from a number of different languages. As others have mentioned, there are many python geoprocessing packages and some work well. I'd second rasterio, the python gdal bindings, and xarray. Pysheds looks interesting but haven't tried.

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  • gdal

    GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.

  • For dem processing, taudem5 has a cli and arcgis toolbox and supposedly supports clusters for large problems. The gdal tools do not have a watershed tool afaik, but handle large datasets well and and can be called from a number of different languages. As others have mentioned, there are many python geoprocessing packages and some work well. I'd second rasterio, the python gdal bindings, and xarray. Pysheds looks interesting but haven't tried.

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