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| AquiferSim | A groundwater nitrogen transport model that intends to assist answer two main questions: 1) What is the long-term effect of land-use change (such as a... Read More | AquiferSim is a GIS-based steady-state regional scale groundwater flow and contaminant transport model. AquiferSim is a regional-scale model of nitrate transport in groundwater and is part... Read More | Land Freshwater | Nitrate, groundwater, land use | |
| CLUES Catchment Land Use for Environmental Sustainability |
CLUES is a catchment-based model developed to address “what if” scenarios under different land use at large scales. CLUES predicts the impacts of land use... Read More | CLUES is a modelling system for assessing the effects of land use change on water quality and socio-economic factors at a minimum scale of sub-catchments... Read More | Land Freshwater | land use, water quality, socio-economic, catchment | |
| CHES Cumulative Hydrological Effects Simulator |
CHES (Cumulative Hydrological Effects Simulator) estimates the net changes to the flow regime throughout a catchment due to multiple water use schemes. It also quantifies... Read More | NIWA's new CHES (Cumulative Hydrological Effects Simulator) software tool predicts how water flows in a catchment will change with multiple water uses (e.g. direct abstractions... Read More | Freshwater | Water allocation, scenarios, water resource management | |
| DYRESM- CAEDYM Dynamic Reservoir Simulation Model - Computational Aquatic Ecosystem Dynamics Model |
These models assist in the estimation of the impact of different forcing functions (e.g. climate and inflows) and management options on water quality, with a... Read More | DYRESM – CAEDYM is a one dimensional hydrodynamic-ecological model that can be used to investigate the interactions between physical, chemical and biological processes that occur... Read More | Freshwater Coastal | water quality, lakes, reservoirs, transport, temperature, management |
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| EFSAP Environmental Flows Strategic Allocation Platform |
EFSAP is designed to assist with quantifying instream (physical habitat for fish) and out-of-stream (reliability of supply) consequences of different minimum flow and allocation limits... Read More | EFSAP was developed by NIWA as a water allocation decision support tool. The main uses of this tool have been in response to the introduction... Read More | Freshwater Biodiversity | Water allocation, stream habitat, scenarios | |
| Faecal Source Tracking | This framework of tools is used to identify the source of pollutants in a waterway that has become contaminated with faeces. Read More | The framework of tools has been developed and used by the Institute of Environmental Science and Research New Zealand (ESR). The framework was developed to... Read More | Freshwater | Faecal pollution, water quality, source tracking | |
| FIF Forest Investment Framework |
Forest Investment Framework (FIF) enables decision-makers to identify sub-catchments or regions across New Zealand and assess their viability of purchasing land and its conversion to... Read More | The Forest Investment Framework (FIF), previously called the Forest Investment Finder, has been developed to enable the assessment of key ecosystem services provided by planted... Read More | Land Ecosystem Services Freshwater Biodiversity | Forest ecosystem services, timber viability, pimus radiata, impedance layers, revenue layers, carbon sequestration, avoided erosion, provision of habitats, roading costs | |
| FENZ Freshwater Ecosystems of New Zealand |
FENZ consists of a large set of spatial data layers and supporting information on New Zealand's rivers, lakes and wetlands. The database aims to support... Read More | The Freshwater Ecosystems of NZ (FENZ) geo-database provides an independent, national representation of the biodiversity values and pressures on New Zealand's rivers, lakes and wetlands.... Read More | Biodiversity Freshwater | Biodiversity, Freshwater ecosystems | |
| GLEAMS Groundwater Loading Effects of Agricultural Management Systems |
GLEAMS was developed to evaluate the impact of management practices on potential pesticide and nutrient leaching within, through, and below the root zone. It also... Read More | GLEAMS is a continuous simulation, field scale model, which was developed as an extension of the Chemicals, Runoff and Erosion from Agricultural Management Systems (CREAMS)... Read More | Land Freshwater | leaching, nutrient, pesticide, root zone, soil erosion, sediment yield, hydrology | |
| HEL Highly Erodible Land Model |
HEL identifies land that is highly erodible. It identifies steep land that is at risk of mass movement. It identified land that should be under... Read More | The Highly Erodible Land (HEL) system identifies land highly susceptible to mass-movement erosion using a combination of the erosion terrains derived from the NZLRI database,... Read More | Land Natural Hazards Freshwater | erosion risk, land sliding, earth flow, gully erosion, sediment, land cover | |
| IFS Integrated Freshwater Solutions |
The IFS model is a scoping model constructed from a Mediated Modelling process which extended over 3 workshop days with 16-18 participants from Horizons Regional... Read More | The IFS model connects land use types (including urban) with loadings of sediment and nutrients to the river. Aquatic habitat and values such as mauri... Read More | Land Freshwater | Manawatu, catchment, Nitrogen, phosphorus, Sediment, Runoff, Flood protection, Natural Capital, Maori values and Mana | |
| InVEST Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs |
The Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs (InVEST) tool is a suite of free open source software models for the mapping and valuing of... Read More | InVEST is the main tool developed by the natural capital project in partnership with several academic collaborators including Stanford Department of Biology, the Chinese Academy... Read More | Freshwater Coastal Biodiversity Land Community | ||
| LUCI Land Utilisation and Capability Indicator |
Land Utilisation and Capability Indicator (LUCI) is a tool that allows users to explore the capability of a landscape to provide a variety of ecosystem... Read More | The Land Utilisation and Capability Indicator (LUCI) model allows the mapping of ecosystem services from the sub-field to national scale, and modelling of the impact... Read More | Land Ecosystem Services Freshwater Biodiversity | Ecosystem services, Land capability, indicators, Water quality, Soil, Sediment, River flow, Phosphorus, Other Services, Nitrogen, Management outcome, Land use, Land cover Greenhouse gas fluxes, Climate scenarios, Biodiversity |
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| LUMASS Land Use Management Support System |
LUMASS is designed to provide support for two high level aspects of land management: i) land use impact assessment and ii) spatial planning. The former... Read More | The Land Use Management Support System (LUMASS) was developed by Alexander Herzig of Landcare Research it is a free and open source software. LUMASS is... Read More | Ecosystem Services Land Freshwater | Spatially explicit system dynamics, Land systems modelling, Spatial optimisation, Integrated modelling framework, LUMASS |
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| MODFLOW | MODFLOW is a modular hydrologcial model that allows users to simulate and project groundwater condition and groundwater/surface-water interaction to inform management and policy decisions for... Read More | MODFLOW is the USGS's modular hydrologic model. MODFLOW is a popular open-source groundwater flow model considered an international standard for simulating and predicting groundwater conditions... Read More | Freshwater | Groundwater flow, groundwater surface-water interactions, solute transport, aquifer | |
| NZFARM New Zealand Forest and Agriculture Regional Model |
The primary intention of the development of NZFARM is to provide decision-makers with information on the economic impacts of policy. It also provide information on... Read More | NZ-FARM is a comparative-static, partial equilibrium model of regional New Zealand land use that maximises rural income across a catchment, accounting for the environmental impacts... Read More | Land Freshwater | Environmental policy, land use | |
| OVERSEER® | OVERSEER® is an agricultural management tool which assists farmers and their advisers to examine nutrient use and movements within a farm to optimise production and... Read More | OVERSEER® is a nutrient budgeting model that is widely used in New Zealand and is required to be used under some regional council policies. It... Read More | Land Freshwater | fertiliser, nutrient budgeting, nutrient management planning, greenhouse gas | |
| Riparian Planner | The riparian planner is a tool developed to assist farmers to create a riparian management plan to fence, plant and protect waterways on their specific... Read More | The riparian planner is a free online tool was developed by Dairy NZ and Landcare Research with inputs from regional councils throughout New Zealand. The... Read More | Land Freshwater | Riparian management, water quality, | |
| RiCom River and Coastal Model |
River and Coastal Ocean Model (RiCOM) is a hydrodynamic model that is used to understand threats from coastal inundation events Read More | The River and Coastal Ocean Model (RiCOM) is a numerical hydrodynamic model used to demonstrate near shore hydrologic conditions primarily surrounding water velocity and height. The... Read More | Coastal Freshwater | ||
| RiVAS River Values Assessment System |
RiVAS is designed to provide an explicit and standardised method to develop assessment criteria and significance thresholds for multiple in and out of river values.... Read More | The RiVAS tool (and its underlying method) uses a multi-criteria analysis (MCA) approach and aims to: Establish criteria to assess the river value; Identify significance thresholds... Read More | Biodiversity Community Freshwater | river, values, planning, significance | |
| ROTAN-Annual Rotorua Taupo Nitrogen Model |
ROTAN-Annual is used for the prediction of nitrate inputs to lakes for various land use, rainfall, and mitigation scenarios to inform land use policy and... Read More | ROTAN is a daily/weekly time-step, GIS-based, rainfall-runoff-groundwater model which can predict the water flows and nitrogen concentrations in streams in daily or weekly time steps.... Read More | Freshwater | Nitrogen, Land use, Lake, eutrophication | |
| SedNet Sediment budgets for river Networks |
SedNet identifies sources and sinks of sediment and nutrients in river networks and predicts spatial patterns of erosion and sediment load. SedNet constructs sediment and... Read More | SedNet has been designed for a range of different users with different backgrounds, however modelling sediment and nutrient budgets is a complex activity. GIS and... Read More | Freshwater Land | sediment, nutrients, nitrogen, phosphorous, erosion, budgets, deposition, scenarios, land use change | |
| UPSW Urban Planning that Sustains Water |
UPSW is designed to allow the user to assess the impacts of urban development scenarios on key attributes such as water and sediment quality, ecosystem... Read More | Urban Planning that Sustains Waterbodies (UPSW) is a pilot spatial DSS, the model building and testing came to completion in December 2012. The DSS was... Read More | Freshwater Ecosystem Services Coastal Urban Systems | stormwater, urban water management, water quality, contaminants, ecosystem, habitat, indicators, BBN, C-CLAM, USC | |
| WISE Waikato Integrated Scenario Explorer |
WISE is an integrated spatial decision support system is intended to support regional policy development, planning and resource management. It allows future scenarios to be... Read More | The* Waikato Integrated Scenario Explorer (WISE)* is an Integrated Spatial Decision Support System (ISDSS) designed specifically for New Zealand which focuses on the Waikato region. It... Read More | Land Urban Systems Biodiversity Freshwater Ecosystem Services | regional policy, planning, resource management | |
| WAIORA Water Allocation Impacts on River Attributes |
This model provides guidance on whether a water abstraction or discharge to a river could have adverse impacts on dissolved oxygen, total ammonia, water temperature... Read More | WAIORA is a decision support system, developed by NIWA, with particular utility in cases where changes to a flow regime are considered likely to impact... Read More | Freshwater | Mitigation, streams, habitat | |
| WSM Watershed Modelling |
The Watershed modelling System (WMS) has been developed by AQUAVEO who have developed a series of tools for the visualisation of surface and groundwater hydrology... Read More | WMS is a watershed analysis tool that provides hydrologic and hydraulic modelling at watershed scales. Promoted as an 'all-in-one' watershed solution the software provides access... Read More | Freshwater Natural Hazards |