RICS (Rapid Inventory Collection System) is a vehicular data collection system. It collects geo-tagged imagery and user added property damage-level information. The system consists of Ethernet cameras, tripods, circuitry and the RICS software that runs on a laptop. It was successfully deployed following the 2009 Victorian Bushfires, the 2010 Kalgoorlie and Christchurch Earthquakes, the 2011 Brisbane floods and TC Yassi.

Geoscience Australia and the ANU Mathematical Science Institute have developed a new modelling tool called ANUGA for simulation of inundation and impact from hydrological disasters. The capability is based on a sophisticated mathematical model initially developed at the ANU and implemented to production standard at GA. It can model the process of wetting and drying as water enters a coastal community; it can model arbitrary geometries; it has unprecedented accuracy and it has a novel and easy-to-use interface

This relates to the release of ANUGA as open-source software. No abstract required. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/anuga/

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iTimewalk App Software

This software suite has been under development since 1969 and is stored as a file system under /nas/pmd/prg/. It consists of source code for geophysical software written for processing tasks which cannot be accomplished using commercially licensed software accessible to GA. The majority of this software is written in Fortran, Perl, Python, awk and Visual Basic programming languages designed to run on Unix, Linux, Windows and Vax/VMS operating systems. At the date of this entry the collection has 1390 inventoried computer programs and 263,000 lines of code. The source code contains standardised headers following guidelines developed by GA's Programmer User Group (and fits with ISO 19115), and this allows the collection to be discovered and delivered via a web-based seach tool (see links). Current contributors are listed as authors of this metadata entry, however past employees and others are noted with the standard author header for each item of software.

The GA Animator Software is a tool used to create high quality fly-through animations of geoscience data for internal and external stakeholders. It is build using the NASA World Wind Java SDK, as a companion tool to the publicly available 3D Data Viewer.

Upgrade for software package for geochemical modelling released in 1999. Available from OEMD on request to Evgeniy Bastrakov (a password is set for a particular user).

The Tropical Cyclone Risk Model (TCRM) is a statistical-parametric model of tropical cyclone behaviour and effects. A statistical model is used to generate synthetic tropical cyclone events. This is then combined with a parametric wind field model to produce estimates of cyclonic wind hazard.