GEONAMICA

GEONAMICA© is an object-oriented application framework developed and supported by RIKS since 1990. It is specially tailored for developing Spatial Decision Support Systems featuring integrated dynamic models as their core element. It is an extendible toolbox for the DSS developer containing ready to use software building blocks required for the development of models, analysis tools and user interfaces.GEONAMICA© features integrated models running at a variety of nested spatial and temporal resolutions. On the basis of GEONAMICA we have developed products aimed more specifically at river basin management (Catcher), coastal zone management (Coaster) and regional and urban development (Metronamica). These products provide support in understanding the complex processes and problems that planners and policy makers are typically confronted with. They enable the interactive design, exploration and evaluation of different measures and policy options available to the policy makers as well as the analyses of the consequences of autonomous developments and external events on the system studied.