HANDY SOFTWARE FOR RESEARCH
by Oscar Cacho
WeedSearch
Weed
Eradication Feasibility Analysis
This model
combines population dynamics and search theory to calculate the probability
that a weed invasion will be eradicated based on the amount of time invested
in searching for it.
Download WeedSearch
OCapture
Oscar's
data capture program
Did you
ever find yourself trying to read data off a graph for modelling purposes? It
is a labourious process requiring rulers, a steady
hand and a lot of manual calculations for interpolation. This program will
save you a lot of time. All you need is to scan your graphs onto bitmap
files. Read your bitmaps into OCapture and click on
the points you want to read. That's all there is to it.
Download OCapture
SCUAF version 5
Soil
Changes Under Agroforestry
This
program was originally developed by ICRAF with partial funding from ACIAR.
The model has been used extensively to analyse agroforestry systems in Asia
and Africa. As part of an ACIAR project I developed a new Windows-based
version that uses spreadhseet files for input and
output. Running SCUAF 5 requires Excel®, as this software is used by the
model to handle data input and output. Despite this additional requirement,
version 5 is a vast improvement on older versions, which were based on a
laborious question-answer session under the DOS-operating system.
To install
follow these steps:
Create a
new folder (i.e. C:\SCUAF).
Extract the files from SCUAF5.ZIP into the new folder.
The relevant subfolders will be created in your SCUAF folder when the program
is extracted
Run the model by clicking on the SCUAF5.exe icon.
Download SCUAF5 (scuaf5.zip, 2,862 KB)
BRASS
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Bioeconomic Rubber Agroforestry Support System
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This is a
new generation of the BEAM Rubber Agroforestry Models RRYIELD and RRECON. The
models were originally developed by the Bioeconomic
Agroforestry Modelling Project, at the School of Agricultural and Forestry
Sciences, University of Wales. The models were later modified under a project
funded byACIAR. The new name of the program was
proposed by the BEAM team in Wales. The essence of the original models has
not changed. The equations remain the same, except for a few minor
corrections to the economic component. The software has been re-written in
Visual Basic® for Applications and its operation is a considerable
improvement over the original (DOS) version.
Download
BRASS
(brass.zip, 83 kb)
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