PCRaster Open Source Tools

Welcome at the PCRaster Open Source Tools website!

PCRaster is a collection of software tools (binaries, libraries, scripts) for environmental modelling.

The PCRaster Open Source Tools project contains those PCRaster tools that are licensed under an open source license. They can be freely downloaded from the SourceForge project pages. Currently, the following software is part of the collection:

Name	Description	Current release	Code versions
DevEnv	A project to kick-start development projects.	1.1.0	master, 1.1
Dal	A software library for I/O of multidimensional environmental data.	1.1.0	master, 1.1
Dal Python Extension	A software library for I/O of multidimensional environmental data.		master
Aguila	An exploratory data analysis tool for multidimensional environmental data.	1.1.0	master, 1.1
Performance Analyst	Python package for measuring performance.	0.0.6	master
Block Analyst	Python package for block algebra with 3D voxel data.	none	master

Additional websites related to PCRaster are:

http://www.pcraster.eu: This website contains information about research projects related to PCRaster and is the download site of the main PCRaster end-user package (containing all closed source and open source software).

Note

A note about versions (biased towards code that’s still in Subversion, we are moving to Git):

• trunk is the current development version, highly unstable and not intented for use by others than the developers. This version is only available in source code.
• x.y is a release branch version. It receives the bug fixes of a released version of the software. It is pretty stable and can be used by others than the developers. This version is only available in source code.
• x.y.z is a tagged release branch. It will never change and is intended for general use. This version is availabe in source code and end-user tools are also available as installation packages.

You can find more detailed information about versioning in the section on Subversion usage in the DevEnv manual.