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Software Tool Development
Research Programs
Significant effort is often required to analyze observations and model results and provide them in a form required to support management decisions. Most off-the-shelf tools do not address the specialized needs or applications encountered in analyzing data from a multimedia perspective, making it more difficult than is necessary to and link elements of the multimedia components together. The need for specialized tools is especially pertinent to bringing atmospheric components together with watershed components for multimedia management analyses.