Whats New in BASINS 4.0?
Like version 3.1, BASINS 4.0 includes these valuable features: • Data Download Tool, • GIS Project Builder, • GIS Edit Tools, • Automatic and Manual Watershed Delineation, • Watershed Characterization Reports, • series of Surface Water Models, and • customized databases. Unlike previous releases, BASINS version 4.0 runs on a non-proprietary, open source GIS system architecture, providing a cost-saving alternative to expensive GIS software and improving upon the BASINS 3.1 capabilities. Access to data in BASINS 3.1 and 4.0 is web-based. The user specifies the geographic area, and the software downloads selected data from EPA, USGS, and other Internet locations. After the GIS data are downloaded, they are automatically extracted, projected to a user-specified map, and combined in a project file. The Web Data Download tool allows the user to add data to a BASINS project from a variety of data sources and to check for more recent data and updates. The Data Download tool provides dynamic do
