I want to develop groundwater model for an aquifer. Is there any possibility in ArcGIS for modeling, e.g. Arc Hydro Groundwater. What are the capabilities of Acr Hydro Groundwater in ArcMAP? Can it be an alternate for groundwater modeling software e.g. GMS or Groundwater Vistas.
Hi Sir
to develop Groundwater model you need to have one groundwater modeling software like Modflow, Feflow, GMS or Groundwater Vistas. In ArcGIS you can only activate different tools for creating and visualizing the model not for run the model. the best example of these tools is Arc Hydro Groundwater which supports MODFLOW 2005 as well as a number of MODFLOW packages. for more information you can see this link : http://www.aquaveo.com/software/ahgw-modflow-analyst
I haven't used Arc Hydro Groundwater, but yes you can run MODFLOW models within ArcGIS, if you have the MODFLOW analyst package (extra $1500). Besides Ahmed's link see this page as well for more details:
http://archydrogw.com/MODFLOW_Data_Model
Yes, Arc Hydro can be an alternative to GMS or Vistas. All of these software packages are graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to pre- and post-process your MODFLOW model. The underlying MODFLOW files are the same except for some proprietary files in GMS and Visual MODFLOW.
Yes but it is limited to my opinion. I suggest any free platform running but communicating with ArcMap, for instance GMS.
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