INTRODUCTION > System Requirements

What Information can waterRIDE™ Display?

Three main types of files can be displayed in the main viewing window of the waterRIDE™ interface. These are:

•Georeferenced imagery - file types such as bitmaps (*.bmp files), JPEGs (*.jpg and *.jpeg files), Enhanced Compressed Wavelet (*.ecw files), MrSID files (*.sid), JPEG2000 files (*.jp2, j2k), Portable Network Graphics (*.PNG), TIFF/GeoTIFF (*.tif), ERDAS Imagine (*.img) with defined bottom-left coordinates and pixel size, Web Map Services (WMS), GeoPDF (*.pdf), GDAL XML Image Servers (*.XML).

•GIS files - files from GIS packages such as ESRI (*.shp, *.gdb, *.mdb files), MapInfo (*.mif, *.tab files), AutoCAD (*.dxf, *.dwg), MicroStation (*.dgn), Google Earth (*.kml, *.kmz), Geo-Package (*.gpkg) as well as database-based GIS layers via a *.DBvec file (MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL/PostGIS).

•Result data files - Depending on the specific waterRIDE™ application, various hydraulic model results can be displayed (such as: RMA, MIKE11, MIKE21, MIKE Flood, MIKE SHE, MIKE URBAN, TUFLOW, TUFLOW FV, TUFLOW PIPES, SOBEK, ANUGA, FLS, SELFE 2D, DRAINS, ESTRY, HEC-RAS, InfoWorks, ICPR, RUBICON (2D framework), ISIS 1D/2D, RiverFlow2D, HEC-RAS 2D and 3Di. waterRIDE™ can read and display model output results in a specific file format. These files may be read natively or translated into the waterRIDE™ binary formats (TIN:*.wrb or Grid:*.wrr).

In addition to these spatially referenced data files, non-spatially referenced data including text (*.txt, *.rtf, *.docx, *.doc, *.pdf files), tables (*.csv files), photographs (*.bmp and *.jpg files), multimedia (*.avi and *.mpeg files), Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, (in fact, any OLE compatible file - a file that can be opened by "double clicking" in windows explorer) from external sources can be linked to objects in GIS files displayed by waterRIDE™. These files can be displayed in a separate Links Display Window when certain objects in a GIS layer are selected with the mouse.

Data Types

Data Types