The 3D Elevation Data Program is a Game-Changer
For decades, engineers have relied on a patchwork of data consisting of field surveys, orthographic photos, and other sources to piece together baseline topographic data for infrastructure design…
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Experiments in Flood Risk Assessment
As cities grapple with flood preparedness, a strategy known as “stochastic storm transposition” (SST) is increasingly viewed as a tool useful for flood risk assessment. Today, the method…
Findings from the World Meteorological Organization’s newly released Global Climate Report (2025)
If only the most alarming trends we are witnessing lately—warming oceans, heat waves in the Arctic and record high temperatures elsewhere—could be credited to normal fluctuations. But the…
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HEC-RAS in the Philippines
Picture World War II and you might imagine guns and explosives. Filipinos have given us an alternative, “Jeepneys”. On our recent trip to the CivilGEO 2016 Client Summit in Manila, Philippines, we couldn’t help noticing these strange but enticing buses, with the front look of a Jeep and the back configured with...
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In Search of Revolutionary Technology
Believe it or not, the pocket calculator very nearly did not make it to market. The utility of this now indispensable tool was seriously doubted by Hewlett Packard in the 1960s and product development may have ceased altogether if outside investors hadn’t intervened. According to the American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, hedge fund...
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The Road to HEC-RAS
From ancient civilizations to modern settlements, people have relentlessly struggled to manage and predict river flow and stage. Early peoples had no recourse other than to try to anticipate a river’s irregular patterns, an exercise often fraught with risk, and patch together solutions that might not prove effective. Today, civil engineers have an array of...
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Trailblazing Technical Support
There is no substitute for good customer service. Offering an excellent product is clearly important, but if customers’ interactions with your company are poor, the outlook for your business will look equally grim. People are ultimately the clients and people need to be served. Particularly in the case of an engineering software...
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GeoHECRAS Update: HEC-RAS Workflow Automation
Nov 5, 2015 Release For this release of GeoHECRAS, after getting lots of feedback from our users, we have introduced several major new features that improve and speedup the workflow of the HEC-RAS modeler. For example, the software will automatically build the bridge opening after you provide it just a few parameters...
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7 Habits I Try to Keep
Every now and then in my work as an engineering manager I get stumped. I may be stuck in an intense debate with a co-worker where both of us are frustrated and unable to reach a decision. Or I am buried in a heap of engineering projects that grows larger and more...
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GeoHECRAS Update: HEC-RAS Data, Data, Data
July 3, 2015 Release This week we have released another major new update of GeoHECRAS. This update provides much more data functionality and control to the users by allowing them to view and edit the attributed data, merge different data types for a single application to get higher accuracy, and georeference HEC-RAS models to...
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Design of Fish Passages & Ladders with HEC-RAS
By USACE – USACE, Public Domain, Link Salmon and other migrating fish, such as shad, alewives and sturgeon, need access to freshwater habitat for spawning and rearing. In some cases, these fish need to swim thousands of miles through the oceans and rivers to reach their destination, but they are often blocked...
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GeoHECRAS Update: HEC-RAS Made Easy
Jan 19, 2015 Release This week a new update for GeoHECRAS comes out with a full spectrum of new features to speed up HEC-RAS model creation and review. With this new update, the benefits of using a variety of mapping and spatial information in various formats are accessible with HEC-RAS model. The software extends and...
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GeoHECRAS Update: Get Work Done Faster with HEC-RAS
To help speed up your HEC-RAS engineering work, we are pleased to announce after 3 months of hard work a major update to GeoHECRAS. We have introduced a number of new features and functionalities, as well as updates to current features. What’s New Digital Terrain Cross Section Cutting Extract HEC-RAS cross sections from...
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