Profile plotting has been improved in order to provide better presentation of the model results along with the input data. Profile plot results can be animated in time, copied to the Windows clipboard and exported to ASCII text files. Profile plot settings can be saved and re-loaded.

Illustration: Profile plot

Graphical items such as calculated flows, pressures, water quality can be displayed on the profile plot along with the pipeline elevation. Minimum, maximum, and current values can be displayed within the same profile plot allowing the user fast and easy results checking.

Tabular Items such as tables and values can be displayed for both input and calculated result items. Plot table can be added below the profile plot.

Labelling and symbols allows you to customise the profile plot by selecting colours, line properties for any profile plot item. Result values as well as input data can be labelled.

Requires MIKE URBAN 2007, SP2

For further information please contact Petr Ingeduld at pi@dhigroup.com

Service Pack 2 for DHI Software 2007 was released the 20th of June 2007. You can find the available service packs at:

http://www.dhigroup.com/Software/Download/Release2007ServicePacks.aspx

If you have activated the DHI Autoupdater this will also notify you that a service pack has been released. Service Pack 2 will include corrections made with Service Pack 1 as well.

For further information please contact Henriette Tamasauskas at htt@dhigroup.com

Bring your ADCP wave measurement data directly into your MIKE application

Teledyne RDI’s real-time WavesMon data collection software (version 3.0) now enables you to save your ADCP wave measurement directly into DHI’s file format. This new feature readily allows you to analyse and visualize wave measurements data using your favourite MIKE tools - whether it is in MIKE Zero or a GIS based tool such as Temporal Analyst.  You can of course also load the measurement directly into our wave models (e.g. MIKE 21 Spectral Waves FM and apply the data as boundary conditions.

For further information please contact Kim Rørbæk  at kir@dhigroup.com or Henrik Kofoed-Hansen at hkh@dhigroup.com.

The next issue of the NetWork will be distributed in September. This and subsequent issues will include news on the 2008 release.

At present, DHI a.s. is executing an international project called “Supply of diagnostic and modelling tools, training and services for 13 regional water companies in Bulgaria” (ref. No. EUROPEAID/121561/D/S/BG). The project is financed from the EC general budget for Environment and the client is Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Water. DHI a.s is leading the consortium with SEBA Dynatronic Gmbh that was granted the contract of 1,69 milion Euro for providing the delivery of hardware (comprising of 13 plotters, 24 PCs, 26 laptops, 74 printers, 27 sewer flow meters, 42 ultrasonic flow meters), software (13 Mike Urban CS - collection system, 11 Mike Urban WD - distribution system) as well as substantial training on modelling with Mike Urban and use of diagnostic equipment. The target beneficiaries are selected 13 large Bulgarian Water Utility companies from Plovdiv, Vidin, Vratza, Veliko Tarnovo, Burgas, Sliven, Kardzhali, Kyustendil, Dobric, Rouse, Yambol, Gabrovo and Perník. Project started in February 2007 and is expected to finish till September 2007.

At present, the project is approaching its final phase. The basic hardware and Mike Urban software were delivered, installed and tested. The training of 48 local specialists from the Water Utilities was structured into two subsequent phases with 3 man-months and 11 man-months of training time in Bulgaria. The project management, delivery of substantial portion of hardware and training on Mike Urban is being completed by DHI a.s. staff together with help of DHI Slovakia and with substantial logistic and organisational support from DHI Bulgaria.

For further information please contact Tomas Metelka at T.Metelka@dhi.cz or Ventzi Bojkov at v.bojkov@dhigroup.com.

If you want to classify your input data, you can use one of the standard classification schemes, which are available by selecting “Statistics” from the right mouse pop-up menu on the top of any grid column in any editor e.g. the Pipe Editor. MIKE URBAN provides or create custom classes based on classes. This is very fast and easy way to query or check the input data for errors; if you classify pipes by the pipe diameter, the Classification dialog gives you minimum and maximum diameter, average diameter as well as the distribution of the pipe diameter over the pipe network.

Illustration: Video tutorials were made for MIKE URBAN 2007

Requires MIKE URBAN 2007

For further information please contact Petr Ingeduld at pi@dhigroup.com

Looking for an answer to a question? The DHI Software FAQ has a number of frequently asked questions and answers. Type in search words or see the latest entries in the FAQ on http://faq.dhigroup.com/

MIKE URBAN enables you to specify bookmarks in the map that will allow you to go to a bookmarked place and zoom level with one click.

How to find the tool? Help|MIKE URBAN Tools and Utilities will take you directly to page where you can download the tool.

2nd Italian User Conference

Intecno-DHI is pleased to announce that the 2nd Italian User Conference will be held in Turin the 2nd week of October 2007 at Congress Centre “Torino Incontra”.

This User Conference will be the right occasion:

• to meet other Italian DHI software users;
• to exchange experience among Italian modellers and DHI & Intecno-DHI experts;
• to know more about the MIKE Products by DHI version 2007 and 2008;
• to take part in special training sessions.

The presentations from users will be the most important part of our Conference, so, for all of you interested in presenting your own project, please contact us by phone (+39 011 56 24 649) or by e-mail (intecno-dhi@intecno-dhi.it). We will be also happy to meet at the Conference all the “future users”.

In parallel to the Conference, we offer the opportunity to all existing and future users to have a special meeting with a DHI/Intecno-DHI experts, if you are interested in this “book an expert”, please remember to book a place until now!

To know more about the 2nd Italian User Conference, visit our web-site www.intecno-dhi.it

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Coast and Ports 2007, 18-20 July, Melbourne, Australia 

Meet DHI staff at our stand at this 18th Australasian Coastal and Ocean Engineering and 11th Australasian Ports and Harbour conference! DHI will present a number of papers at the conference.

For further information please contact Morten Rugbjerg or visit the Conference website.

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AFRIWATER. South Africa’s International Water, Waste & Environmental Exhibition, 15-17 August, Johannesburg, South Africa

DHI and CPH Water will have a strong presence at the conference with a full exhibition stand and showing the entire suite of DHI water modelling software products.

In continuation of the Conference we shall run 2 days’ training course in MIKE URBAN, Johannesburg, 21-22 August 2007.

For further information please contact  Mr Andrew Pott, CPH Water or visit the AFRIWATER Conference website.

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The 10th International Riversymposium & Environmental Flows conference, 3-6 September 2007, Brisbane Australia

DHI will have a booth, will present papers and conduct short training sessions in "Integrated 1D and 2D Groundwater and Surface Water Modelling". Prior to the symposium DHI is running a 3 day course: " Integrated 1D and 2D Groundwater and Surface Water Modelling", 29-31 August 2007, Brisbane, Australia

For further information please contact Graeme Cox, DHI Australia or visit the Conference website.

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13th SANCIAHS SYMPOSIUM, 6-7 September,  Breakwater Lodge, Waterfront, Cape Town

DHI and CPH Water  will present paper on the application of MIKE modelling tools.

Prior to the Symposium we shall run a 3-days’ MIKE BASIN course,

Johannesburg, 3 - 5 September.

For further information please contact Mr Andrew Pott, CPH Water or visit the 13th SANCIAHS SYMPOSIUM Website

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International Conference ModelCARE 2007, 9-13 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark

DHI staff will be presenting papers and posters as well as one of the key note addresses. A booth will be available where you can

learn more about DHI's  groundwater related products, MIKE SHE and FEFLOW. 

Prior to the Conference we shall run 3 days’ course: "Groundwater Modelling with FEFLOW",5-7 September, DHI, Hoersholm, Denmark

For further information please contact Ms Loni Skov Madsen, DHI Denmark or visit Conference website.

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9th DHI UK User Group Meeting, 18-19 September, Oswestry, Shropshire, England

Come to the annual DHI UK UGM for all UK existing and would-be users!

For further details please contact Mr Simon Matthews, DHI UK, or visit the DHI UK website. UK UGM Flyer can also be downloaded here.

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Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association (PNCWA) Annual Conference 2007, 9-12 September, Portland, Oregon

Visit DHI US at DHI exhibition booth.

For further information please contact Ms Barbara White, DHI US, or visit Conference website.

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Floodplain Management Association (FMA) Annual Conference 2007, 4-7 September, South Lake Tahoe, California

Visit DHI US at DHI exhibition booth.

For further information please contact Ms Barbara White, DHI US, or visit Conference website.

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ESRI European User Group Meeting, EUC 2007, and DHI Sweden User Group Meeting, 26-28 September, Stockholm, Sweden

At the conference there will be a separate DHI track.

For further information please contact Mr Tommy Giertz, DHI Sweden or visit the Conference website.

ESRI San Diego

June 18-22, 2007 DHI participated in the 27th Annual ESRI International User Conference in San Diego, California, US. In the DHI exhibition booth we had some busy days giving us the pleasure of meeting numerous potential and existing users to demonstrate, explain, share ideas and exchange views of how to further develop our software. At the plenary and technical sessions it was very useful to listen to where development of ESRI technology will take us in the future. Amongst the many interesting sessions on GIS applications was the presentation the City of Los Angeles gave on how they have used the GIS capabilities of MIKE Urban to efficiently build, check, calibrate and troubleshoot a hydraulic model of the sewer network in LA.

On a more technical level we were also confirmed that the direction DHI has taken with our developments for version 2008 is right. For instance it was promising to get confirmation for the performance improvements associated to using the File Geodatabase (GDB) in ArcGIS 9.2 as opposed to the Personal Getdatabase (MDB). Correspondingly MIKE Urban and DHI GIS Extensions version 2008 will support the use of both GDB and MDB. We also noticed an increasing interest in modelling temporal data in GIS. DHI’s Temporal Analyst fills in the void between spatial (traditional GIS domain) and temporal modelling (DHI domain).

Once again we have been assured that the close integration between DHI Software products and GIS is highly appreciated for obvious reasons: Data stored and managed in GIS are often useful, if not mandatory, as input data for water modelling and likewise GIS based visualisations and analyses of the results of water modelling is often very beneficial. Both directions of interoperability are significantly improving the usability and user efficiency of our software.

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32nd Congress of International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research

32nd Congress of International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR) took place in Venice, Italy (2-6 July 2007). Topics presented and discussed included:

• river and maritime hydraulics
• water resources development
• eco-hydraulics
• ice engineering,
• hydroinformatics.

DHI presented a paper on Coastal developments in harmony with nature and society”. by: Karsten Mangor and landscape architect Dan Borgen Haslov.

DHI DK and Intecno-DHI were present in the exhibition area as one of the Platinum sponsors. Numerous contacts with numerical modelling interested colleagues from all over the world were established. The number of IAHR congress participants exceeded 1500 and, in parallel to the Coastal Structure congress a total of 2000 visitors attended.