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The USGS Water Resources Mission Area provides water information that is fundamental to national and local economic well-being, protection of life and property, and effective management of the Nation’s water resources. Below, find software for a wide range of water resources research and management questions.

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TATER TATER

The software made available through this repository is designed to efficiently sample cross sections sampled from an underlying raster data set and thus facilitate various downstream applications. The program is intended to make this process convenient and is thus referred to as Tool for Automated Transect Extraction along Rivers, or TATER for short. For the purposes of this software...

hydroloom: Utilities to Weave Hydrologic Fabrics, v1.2 hydroloom: Utilities to Weave Hydrologic Fabrics, v1.2

hydroloom is a collection of functions to work with hydrologic geospatial fabrics. hydroloom is designed to provide general hydrologic network functionality for any hydrographic or hydrologic data. The package is intended for developers of workflows and other packages that require low level network and network data manipulation utilities. v1.2 adds downstream accumulation functionality...

Visualizing Storm Impacts Using Flood Stage and Streamgage Data Visualizing Storm Impacts Using Flood Stage and Streamgage Data

The software release combines USGS streamgage data and NOAA precipitaion and storm track data to highlight where floods occurred, how long they lasted, and how storm intensity evolved. This kind of integrated data is critical for emergency response, risk communication, and long term planning.

RIPRAP RIPRAP

The application made available through this software release is designed to provide access to information on water quality derived from remotely sensed data and to facilitate analysis of the resulting images. The software provides a convenient means of obtaining a variety of different metrics and is thus referred to as RSWQ (Remote Sensing of Water Quality) Image Product Retrieval and...

MODFLOW Version 6.7.0 MODFLOW Version 6.7.0

MODFLOW 6 is an object-oriented program and framework developed to provide a platform for supporting multiple models and multiple types of models within the same simulation (Hughes and others, 2017; Langevin and others, 2024). This version of MODFLOW is labeled with a "6" because it is the sixth core version of MODFLOW to be released by the USGS (previous core versions were released in...

MODFLOW 6: USGS Modular Hydrologic Model MODFLOW 6: USGS Modular Hydrologic Model

MODFLOW is a popular open-source groundwater flow model distributed by the U.S. Geological Survey.

DReAMER DReAMER

DReAMER DReAMER: Depth Retrieval Algorithms for Mapping and Exploration of Rivers Description The software application made available through this repository is designed for mapping water depth in river channels from passive optical remotely sensed data. The program provides convenient access to a number of different methods for deriving bathymetric information from images and...

TopoRivBlender TopoRivBlender

Github repository that contains python code workflows for generating 3-dimensional images of topography, hydrography, and other remote sensing data with Blender, an open-source visualization software.

NLDI Flow Tools NLDI Flow Tools

NLDI Flowtools is a Python package for basin delineation and flow path tracing from any point within CONUS. It can return either the full upstream drainage basin or just the portion within the local NHD catchment (i.e., splitcatchment). The flow path tracing tool follows terrain downhill until it intersects the nearest NHD stream line, returning both the traced path and the intersected...

ModelMuse: A Graphical User Interface for Groundwater Models ModelMuse: A Graphical User Interface for Groundwater Models

ModelMuse is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) models MODFLOW 6, MODFLOW–2005, MODFLOW-LGR, MODFLOW-LGR2, MODFLOW-NWT, MODFLOW-CFP, MODFLOW-OWHM versions 1 and 2, MODPATH, ZONEBUDGET, PHAST, SUTRA 2.2, SUTRA 3.0, SUTRA 4.0, MT3D-USGS, and WellFootprint and the non-USGS programs MT3DMS and PEST.

STACS STACS

STACS: Software Tool for Approximating Channel Shapes Description The software application made available through this repository provides an integrated end-to-end workflow for modeling the geometry of river channel cross sections. This standalone program is called the Software Tool for Approximating Channel Shapes, or STACS for short, and provides convenient access to a flexible...

InQUIRI InQUIRI

This standalone software application provides an integrated set of tools for inferring river discharge Q from remotely sensed data based on critical flow theory, a method introduced by Legleiter et al. (2025). This approach can yield accurate streamflow estimates in rivers with well-defined standing wave trains, referred to as undular hydraulic jumps (UHJ's). Once an image with clearly...
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