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| 247 | werner | 1 | /** \mainpage Welcome to the iLand Source Code Documentation! |
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| 3 | \section intro_sec Introduction |
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| 752 | werner | 5 | \htmlonly |
| 6 | <img src="http://iland.boku.ac.at/img/tiki/iland/iland_gfx1.png" style="float:right"></br> |
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| 7 | <img src="http://iland.boku.ac.at/img/tiki/iland/iLand_gfx6.png" style="float:right"> |
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| 8 | \endhtmlonly |
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| 752 | werner | 10 | iLand is a model of forest landscape dynamics, simulating individual tree competition, growth, mortality, and regeneration. |
| 11 | It addresses interactions between climate (change), disturbance regimes, vegetation dynamics, and forest management. |
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| 14 | iLand is a research tool already used by a growing number of scientists in the US and Europe. |
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| 15 | The iLand software is released under the GNU General Public License and freely available. |
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| 18 | The iLand wiki with 120+ pages of documentation, links to the download package and much more is located <a href="http://iland.boku.ac.at">here.</a> |
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| 247 | werner | 20 | \section About the source code |
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| 752 | werner | 22 | Qt toolkit |
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| 24 | iLand uses the cross platform C++ toolkit Qt. <a href="http://qt-project.org/">Qt</a> is available for Windows, Linux and Mac platforms (along several mobile platforms like Symbian, Maemo, and others) - so you are not locked in with regard to operating systems. The Qt framework is open source and offers lots of functionality beyond the graphical user interface. |
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| 27 | Database |
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| 29 | iLand uses the SQLite (http://www.sqlite.org/) database. This is a leight-weight open source database that requires no installation, is cross platform and has the reputation to be very fast. |
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| 30 | SQLite stores the all tables of a database within one single file. This approach could get quite handy for the storage of model outputs. |
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| 32 | Subversion |
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| 34 | The iLand source code is stored in a <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">subversion</a> source code repository. The public SVN-repository (through WebSVN) is available on the net: <a href="http://iland.boku.ac.at/publicsvn/">http://iland.boku.ac.at/publicsvn/</a>. Note that there is also a "private" SVN for portions of the model that are not published yet. |
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| 247 | werner | 38 | */ |
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| 697 | werner | 40 | /** @defgroup core iLand core classes |
| 41 | This module contains more/less core model of iLand. |
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| 42 | The class Model is the top level container of iLand. The Model holds a collection of ResourceUnits, links to SpeciesSet and Climate. |
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| 43 | ResourceUnit are grid cells with (currently) a size of 1 ha (100x100m). Many stand level processes (NPP produciton, WaterCycle) operate on this |
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| 45 | The Model also contain the landscape-wide 2m LIF-grid (http://iland.boku.ac.at/competition+for+light). |
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| 697 | werner | 47 | The basic simulation entity of iLand is the individual Tree. Trees live on a ResourceUnit (i.e. trees are stored in lists owned by ResourceUnits). |
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| 247 | werner | 51 | */ |
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| 53 | /** @defgroup tools iLand tools |
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| 56 | /** @defgroup script iLand scripting |
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| 249 | werner | 57 | The iLand classes and APIs for scripting (i.e.\ JavaScript) are described on this page. |
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| 249 | werner | 60 | /** \page Javascript Objects |
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| 62 | Some general intro to javascript in iLand |
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| 64 | - \subpage globals Object in global space |
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| 65 | - \subpage climateconverter ClimateConverter |
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| 66 | - \subpage csvfile CSVFile |
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| 69 | Now you can proceed to the \ref advanced "advanced section". |
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| 71 | */ |
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| 73 | /** @defgroup GUI elements necessary for the iLand user interface |
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| 76 | */ |