Software and Datasets
Through our research, our group develops a range of tools that to support agricultural water management and climate adaptation. We are committed to open science, and seek to share these tools freely with the wider research and practitioner communities. Some of the key open-source software tools and data products developed by members of our group can be found below including links to relevant download pages and websites.
AquaCrop-OS
AquaCrop-OS is an unoffocial, free, open-source implementation of AquaCrop, a crop water productivity model developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). AquaCrop-OS provide a tool to simulate crop yield response to water, climate and environmental conditions in different regions around the world. The model has been used researchers and practitioners in over 85 countries worldwide, for applications ranging from irrigation demand estimation to climate impact analysis and integrated water resource system planning and management. Our group have developed versions of the model in Matlab, Octave and Python, which can be download from the dedicated AquaCrop-OS webpage and GitHub page. We also run training workshops on the use of the model for agricultural water management and policy analysis (e.g., Lincoln, Nebraska, USA in 2017), and have developed a range of open-source Jupyter notebooks to guide users through common applications of the model in Python. If you want to chat or ask questions about use of the model in your own projects then please get in touch with Tim via email. |