3.2 Application features - HydrogeomorphologyTools/SedInConnect_2.3 GitHub Wiki

The development of the stand-alone application (SedInConnect 2.x) started as a bottom-up approach. We verified the need of such an application while interacting and exchanging feedback with researchers and management authorities interested in the connectivity assessment. The main features, characterizing the application development are:

• Free application and open source code -> thus encouraging its usage and receiving improvements from the scientific community.

• Development based on the Python Experience -> exploiting already available libraries for the efficient analysis of geographic dataset, for the creation of Graphical User Interfaces and guaranteeing a cross platform portability (Windows/Linux/MacOS) thus enhancing the potential users’ community.

• Stand-alone application -> in order to be independent from any GIS software knowledge to be more usable also by management authorities less involved in research issues but very close to management issues and priorities