July 17, 2024

Export 3d Geological Units as Vtk format with Gempy and Aquifer App - Tutorial

July 17, 2024/ Saul Montoya

Aquifer App offers a friendly, clean and powerful way to create Gempy scripts for geological modeling. The platform also allows users to run the scripts and download the whole modeling project that has the 3D geometry of the geological units and faults in Vtk format. This tutorial shows an applied case of geological data visualization, model creation, model run, export and representation of the Vtk files in Paraview.

July 12, 2024

Regional geological modeling with surface topography with Gempy and Aquifer App - Tutorial

July 12, 2024/ Saul Montoya

The coupling of Python scripts with the Aquifer App platform allows us to generate geological models with a versatility not seen before. This is a basic example of regional geological modeling in Aquifer App with surface topography from a digital elevation model in TIF format. The tutorial also makes a 3D representation of the contacts and orientations of the one layer geology in a Jupyter notebook for better analysis of the geological sequence.

July 03, 2024

Geological modeling of a recumbent fold with Gempy and Aquifer App - Tutorial

July 03, 2024/ Saul Montoya

The coupling of Python scripts with the Aquifer App platform allows us to generate geological models with a versatility not seen before. This is a basic example of geological modeling of an recumbent fold in Aquifer App that can create models using Gempy. The tutorial also makes a 3D representation of the contacts and orientations of the layers in a Jupyter notebook for better analysis of the geological sequence.

July 02, 2024

Flood simulation from direct rainfall with Python and Landlab - Tutorial

July 02, 2024/ Saul Montoya

Simulation of direct precipitation events over a surface is important to assess the impacted areas and manage disaster situations. Response to precipitation is evaluated over cells in a 2D model and runoff is routed to the stream networks. Landlab is a Python library for a variety of surface processes and can model shallow water flow over topography with a variety of algorithms. We have developed an applied case of direct rainfall for flood modeling over a geospatial raster where an initial water height is applied and then flows over the surface. Resulting water heights are exported as geospatial rasters.

June 28, 2024

Geological modeling of an anticline structure with Gempy and Aquifer App - Tutorial

June 28, 2024/ Saul Montoya

The coupling of Python scripts with the Aquifer App platform allows us to generate geological models with a versatility not seen before. This is a basic example of geological modeling of an anticline structure in Aquifer App that can create models using Gempy. The tutorial also makes a 3D representation of the contacts and orientations of the layers in a Jupyter notebook for better analysis of the geological sequence.

June 21, 2024

Missing Crop Vegetation Areas Detection with Python and Scikit Learn

June 21, 2024/ Saul Montoya

An applied case for the recognition of missing crop vegetation areas based on a drone orthophoto. Contours have been identified from an enhanced combination of raster bands with a marching squares method to find constant valued contours and then exported as geospatial polygons.

June 18, 2024

Simplify / densify stream network online with Hatari Utils - Tutorial

June 18, 2024/ Saul Montoya

Watershed delineation and stream network determination are common tasks on the hydrological analysis for any area of interest. There is a parameter on the stream network determination that allows us to have simple stream networks that resemble the main water courses or dense stream networks that map all the permanent / temporary streams. This is an applied example of stream network determination on our online platform Hatari Utils where you can specify the number of upstream cells and interactively review the result.

June 11, 2024

Geological modeling of horizontal sedimentary layers with Gempy and Aquifer App - Tutorial

June 11, 2024/ Saul Montoya

The coupling of Python scripts with the Aquifer App platform allows us to generate geological models with a versatility not seen before. This is a basic example of geological modeling of two horizontal layers in Aquifer App that can create models using Gempy. The tutorial also makes a 3D representation of the contacts and orientations of the layers in a Jupyter notebook for better analysis of the geological sequence.

June 07, 2024

Geospatial processing for a groundwater model in Model Muse in 14 minutes - Tutorial

June 07, 2024/ Saul Montoya

Groundwater model creation requires a complete set of spatial data for the different hydraulic parameters, boundary conditions and other model items. Vector and raster data need to be preprocessed, converted, reprojected to fit the requirements of Model Muse.

This tutorial covers an applied case of raster and vector data processing for a basin.

June 04, 2024

Watershed delineation for basins containing internal lakes / reservoirs with Hatari Utils - Tutorial

June 04, 2024/ Saul Montoya

Hydrological basins could have a diversity of shapes due to the morphology and it´s a challenge to have a process that can delineate basins with different characteristics in a short amount of time. Hatari Utils is an online platform for hydrogeological analysis that has a tool for basin delineation, in this tutorial we have tested the capabilities of Hatari Utils to delineate a basin that has an internal lake.

June 03, 2024

Modeling Brine Density vs Concentration Regression Lines with Phreeqc and Aquifer App - Tutorial

June 03, 2024/ Saul Montoya

Complex geochemical simulations are entirely possible to be performed with Phreeqc coupled with Aquifer App and Python. Brines can be simulated at different concentrations to obtain relations that are input of other variable density flow models. In this case we have model one brine, sodium bicarbonate, with the REACTION keyword with moles values that range from 0.5 to 12 moles. Values of mass, volume, concentration, and density were processed in Python from the dataframes generated from Aquifer App.

May 29, 2024

Simulation of water evaporation with Phreeqc and Aquifer App - Tutorial

May 29, 2024/ Saul Montoya

We define evaporation as the process of removing water from the chemical system in Phreeqc and this can be achieved with the REACTION keyword and a negative reaction coefficient. We have developed an applied case of water evaporation from precipitation water and the mix of the resulting water to restore the original volume. The whole Phreeqc setup, simulation and result analysis process has been in Aquifer App.

May 28, 2024

Maps of Days without Rain generation with Python and Rasterio - Tutorial

May 28, 2024/ Saul Montoya

Water resurces management requires not only some direct values as precipitation amounts but also more elaborated data as days without rain. Based on the CHIRPS dataset for year 2022 stored on NetCDF format we have elaborated a map of days without rain for a given country and exported the results as a fully geospatial raster. There is a particular discussion about the data type and the data value to calculate and store value just for the selected location.

May 24, 2024

Introduction to Python and Geopandas for Flooded Area Analysis - Tutorial

May 24, 2024/ Saul Montoya

Geopandas is one of the most advanced geospatial libraries in Python because it combines the spatial tools of Shapely, it can create and read different OGC vector spatial data, it can couple the Pandas tools to manage, filter, and make operations over the columns of the metadata, it has the capability to plot geospatial data on Matplotlib and even to Folium among other features. We have developed a tutorial of Geopandas applied to the analysis of flooded areas over the Boise city for a return period of 200 years; the tutorial covers introductory concepts of Geopandas, it will work with point, line and polygon vector data, create plots, simplify vertices and perform geospatial queries over inundated facilities and highways.

May 16, 2024

Could you delineate a watershed and river network in 52 seconds? - Tutorial

May 16, 2024/ Saul Montoya

Delineation of watershed and river network is one of the most common tasks in modern hydrology but it might comprise a group of steps on a desktop software that take several minutes to perform. We wanted to recreate the process in an mostly automated workflow in an online platform that substantially reduces the amount of time involved in the process.

We came up with a solution on Hatari Utils (utils.hatarilabs.com) that allows us to delineate a basin of 530 km2 in just 52 seconds. Results from the platform also include the river network and the main river and are available as geospatial ESRI shapefiles.

May 13, 2024

Basic example of seawater intrusion with variable density MODFLOW6 - BUY and Model Muse - Tutorial

May 13, 2024/ Saul Montoya

One of the greatest new features of the latest Model Muse version is the implementation of the BUY package for variable density and seawater intrusion modeling. The BUY package was already available in Modflow 6 but the resources to build a model was limited to scripts in Flopy or to build the packages for Modflow by hand, now with Model Muse much stress and pain could be relieved to simulate this type of groundwater model much relevant on the current climate change scenarios.

This tutorial shows the complete procedure to implement variable density / seawater intrusion modeling on a simple coastal aquifer with regional flow. The model runs over two steady / transient stress periods of 50 year each and has a cell with of 20 on the intrusion and 15 layers.

May 11, 2024

ModelMuse version 5.2 has been released, explore what is new version.

May 11, 2024/ Saul Montoya

Even though that the version 5.2 was released on March 22 2024 we just found time to make a video explaning the new features of this version and where they are implemented on the graphical user interfase. This new version of Model Muse allows to simulate variable density and variable viscosity flow among other features of Modflow 6. Have a look on the video and wait for our comming applied tutorials related to these new features.

May 04, 2024

Basic tutorial of online geological modeling with Gempy in AquiferApp

May 04, 2024/ Saul Montoya

Gempy is an open-source library for modeling geology written in Python. The library is capable of creating complex 3D geological models including structures, fault networks, and unconformities and it can be coupled with uncertainty analysis.

Hatarilabs have developed an online platform to create geological models with Gempy with minimal effort. The online tool is called GempyApp and runs under AquiferApp (aquifer.hatarilabs.com). This tutorial shows an applied example of geologic modeling of 4 layers with a fault. The tutorial covers the steps of point and orientation file input, definition of fault/strats and geological sequence, show data stats and tables, run the geological model interpolation and plot results.

April 09, 2024

Land cover classification using a Naives Bayes algorithm with Python - Tutorial

April 09, 2024/ Saul Montoya

Machine learning can be applied to many fields as land cover classification from remote sensing imagery. The performance and accuracy of classification will depend on the number of raster bands, the image resolution, the land cover type and the algorithm used. This tutorial will perform an applied case of land cover classification from a panchromatic image in Python using the Naives Bayes algorithm implemented on the Scikit Learn package. The classification will cover four categories as: rivers, river beaches, woods and pastures; coding is performed under a Jupyter Notebook with Python running from a geospatial Conda environment. Some graphics and statistics about the classification precision are also included on the tutorial.

March 22, 2024

Simple example of ion exchange modeling with Phreeqc and Aquifer App - Tutorial

March 22, 2024/ Saul Montoya

An example that demonstrates the Phreeqc and Aquifer App capabilities to model ion exchange. This example uses the cation ion exchange approach where only the EXCHANGE keyword is used because EXCHANGE_MASTER_SPECIES and EXCHANGE_SPECIES are included in phreeqc.dat database. The model output is parsed as charts and tables and the solution composition and description are calculated and compared before and after the exchange.