Published March 17, 2025 | Version v3

Blackbird source code and supporting data sets for benchmarking study

  • 1. University of Waterloo
  • 2. Heron Hydrologic Ltd.

Description

Supporting data, results and source code for the initial Blackbird benchmarking study. This study is available under Geoscientific Model Development (https://gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/gmd-2024-184/).

Blackbird is a software which implements the Geospatially Augmented Standard Step (GASS) method, designed for efficient flood mapping with low computational cost.

Software and available data is provided under the MIT license, though terrain data and land cover data included in the data set for the Waldemar case study are provided partially by the Grand River Conservation Authority and the Government of Ontario, which are governed by their respective licenses.

Files

benchmark_data.zip

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Additional details

Related works

Is referenced by
Software: https://heronhydrologic.ca/blackbird/ (URL)
Is supplement to
Publication: https://gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/gmd-2024-184/ (URL)

Software

Programming language
R , C++