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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 | |
| C-CALM Catchment Contaminant Annual Loads Model |
C-CALM is intended to aid in the planning of stormwater treatment systems and has been developed to be easy to use with minimal set-up and... Read More | The Catchment Contaminant Annual Loads Model (C-CALM) is a GIS-based contaminant load model which operates at the sub-catchment scale. Contaminants modelled are total suspended solids... Read More | Land Urban Systems | stormwater, contaminants, sediment | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| IDEAS Integrated Dynamic Environmental Assessment System |
IDEAS is a set of linked models for assisting stakeholders in planning catchment futures. From a future vision of the catchment, which may be articulated... Read More | The purpose of IDEAS is to provide an Integrated Dynamic Environmental Assessment System within which modelling tools provide answers to real catchment questions about cumulative... Read More | Land Community | policy development, catchment, model coupling, socio-economic | |
| INFORM Integrated Farm Optimisation and Resource Allocation Model |
INFORM is a farm optimisation model that allows for assessment of targeted investments into farm systems and the best use of resources within the farm.... Read More | “INFORM” (Integrated Farm Optimisation and Resource Allocation Model) is a farm systems model that integrates biological data from each land management unit (similar natural resources... Read More | Land | Farm optimisation, resource allocation | |
| 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 | ||
| INFFER Investment Framework for Environmental Resources |
INFFER's purpose is to help people determine whether the environmental/natural resource projects they are investing in will deliver tangible results within budget; whether the tools... Read More | The Investment Framework for Environmental Resources (INFFER™) is an approach to developing, assessing and prioritising activities and projects aimed at addressing environmental issues. It is... Read More | Ecosystem Services Land | ||
| LAM Land Allocation and Management Catchment Framework |
The Land Allocation and Management (LAM) model is an optimisation modelling approach that explores the economic impacts that various changes to land use policy surrounding... Read More | The Land Allocation and Management (LAM) model is an optimisation model. It employs an iterative search process to identify how different management activities must change... Read More | Land | Land use, optimisation, environmental targets, allocation | |
| LURNZ Land Use in Rural New Zealand |
The purpose of LURNZ is to empirically investigate the potential impacts of policies designed to alter land use decisions. Read More | Land Use in Rural New Zealand (LURNZ) is a computer model that simulates land-use change at a fine spatial scale over the whole country. The... Read More | Land | land use, greenhouse gas, emissions trading, rural, dairy, sheep/beef, policy | |
| 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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| Marxan | Marxan is a conservation planning software that allows a systematic approach to the design of efficient conservation areas. Read More | Marxan is a suite of tools designed to help decision makers find good solutions to conservation planning problems. Initially designed to address conservation area design... Read More | Land Biodiversity Coastal | Biodiversity, conservation planning, priorities | |
| NZeem® New Zealand Empirical Erosion Model |
NZeem® is an empirical model that predicts mean annual sediment yield from a given catchment, based on annual rainfall, type of terrain and percentage of... Read More | NZeem® partitions the New Zealand landscape according to the factors controlling erosion: rock type, land form (especially slope angle), rainfall and land cover. The erosion... Read More | Land Natural Hazards | erosion, sediment, rivers, farm plans, soil conservation |
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| 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 | |
| NManager | NManager is intended to reflect the complex biophysical properties of a catchment and the behaviour of landowners under regulation. It simulates the economic costs and... Read More | NManager is a partial equilibrium simulation model developed by Motu and NIWA, the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research. NManager allows for integrated modelling... Read More | Land | Nitrogen, trading, emissions, Rotorua, groundwater, water quality, dairy, sheep/beef, forestry | |
| 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, | |
| 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 | |
| SPASMO Soil Plant Atmosphere System Model |
SPASMO models the transport of water, microbes and solutes through soils integrating variables such as climate, soil, water uptake by plants in relation to farm... Read More | SPASMO, which has been in continuous development for over 20 years, has been used by six Regional Councils for allocation of irrigation water. It has... Read More | Land | irrigation, nutrient leaching, soil, climate, plant production | |
| Soil Vulnerability Modelling | Soil Vulnerability Modelling defines soil zones of similar vulnerability profile for nutrient and microbial contamination to waterways to provide a basis for: 1) setting nutrient... Read More | Soil Vulnerability Modelling, formerly known as EnSus, is a framework for analysing the environmental risk associated with land use pressure on the land and deriving... Read More | Land | land use, soil, farm management | |
| SSYE Suspended Sediment Yield Estimator |
A New Zealand national GIS ‘layer’ to enable reconnaissance-scale estimation of suspended-sediment yields from New Zealand’s rivers and streams. It has been developed by NIWA... Read More | SSYE uses a raster-based GIS layer of specific suspended-sediment yield (SSY, t/km2/y) from New Zealand’s rivers and streams has been generated based on gauged sediment... Read More | Land Natural Hazards Biodiversity | sediment, sediment yield, river, stream | |
| TEC tool Threatened Environment Classification |
The Threatened Environment Classification Tool was created to make LENZ (Land Environments of New Zealand) accessible to key biodiversity managers. It is an extension to... Read More | The Threatened Environment Classification is an interactive GIS tool which helps planners identify and set a value on New Zealand‘s threatened environments. Landcare Research has... Read More | Land Biodiversity | LENZ, biodiversity, threatened, land environments | |
| TopNet | The hydrological model TopNet was developed at NIWA and is commonly used in New Zealand. Typical applications include flood forecasting, irrigation planning and estimates of... Read More | TopNet is a semi-distributed hydrological model for simulating catchment water balance and river flow. TopNet uses a modelling approach which combines an understanding of hydrology and... Read More | Land | flooding, irrigation, climate change, rivers, flow | |
| 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 |