From 2009-06-08 to 2009-06-26

Venue: Delft, The Netherlands

Summary:
This short course introduces participants to environmental processes and modelling paradigms (among others physically based modelling, cellular automata, fuzzy logic) and different software packages (such as SWAT, DELFT3D) to represent these processes.

The course covers the fundamentals of environmental modelling, and how to build and apply reliable models. The complementary role of monitoring system, GIS, databases and decision support systems will also receive attention.

Organizers: UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
Contact Name: Ann van Griensven
E-mail: a.vangriensven@unesco-ihe.org
URL: http://www.unesco-ihe.org/Education/Short-courses/Regular-short-courses/Environmental-Systems-Modelling