This revision of SMS includes many exciting new features. The most notable is a significant change to the Interface Layout. Some of the key changes to the program include:
New Interface Layout
Editing the view with the mouse (Pan/Zoom/Rotate)
Image pyramids can be created when an image is imported into SMS. Image pyramids are multiple resolution copies of the original image that are created and saved to speed up display. With pyramids, a lower resolution copy of the image displays quickly when drawing the entire image. As you zoom in, copies of the original image resampled at finer resolutions are then drawn. This option allows for optimal performance and clear image display.
The user can now document where data came from, who processed it, what it is intended for, or any other useful notation. This is stored as metadata for the project, an individual data object, or an individual data set.
Several new models have been added to SMS. These include:
BOUSS2D - wave and circulation modeling
GENESIS - coastal morphology
PTM - Particle tracking model
STFATE - Dredged material placement modeling
Several models interfaces have been significantly revised and improved. These include:
IMS-ADCIRC- coastal circulation modeling
IMS-M2D- coastal circulation modeling
RMA4 - constituent migration
SED2D-WES - sediment transport
Generic Model Interface
The steering module has been added to facilitate the process of launching models multiple times. For single model (spin down) simulations, the steering module has been significantly improved for both RMA2 and FESWMS. The steering module can also be used to facilitate the transfer of data from wave models to circulation models and back. Currently, STWAVE-ADCIRC and STWAVE-M2D links are supported.
The tools for inserting man made structures (embankments, dunes, channels, or mounds) into scattered data sets and conceptual models have been expanded and improved. They are more versatile as well as more robust.
Project files have been revised to be more compact and more inclusive. They are now stored in HDF5 format and the scattered data and functional data sets can be stored internally to reduce the number of files.
Support of the new XMDF file format allows scattered data points and their functional data sets to be stored as XMDF data files.
Tabular data can be filtered in any combination of the following as it is read into SMS:
Every nth point - SMS only reads data points in at a user specified interval.
Rectangular domain trimming - Only points inside of a user specified rectangle are retained.
Grid sampling - Points are sampled to a user specified grid resolution. All points in each cell are averaged to an average value for the cell.
SMS now includes expanded capabilities to export data of various types into a delimited tabular data file. This includes scatter sets, meshes and grids and their associated data sets.
Previously, contours computed in RMA2 for 1D elements, could not be displayed. Now the contours are displayed on a projection of the specified width of the 1D elements.
The wave spectra generator in SMS has been expanded to include JONSWAP, Ochi-Hubble, and several other types of spectra.
The user may now specify a transparency factor for contours. This allows the contour to be partially transparent, and lets features previously obscured by opaque contours to be viewed through the contoured surface.
Images of topographic charts or aerial photos can be draped over scattered data sets or meshes to add a feeling of realism.
The functional surface tool has been expanded to allow:
Mapping of another functional data sets contours onto the functional surface.
Explicit control of which data sets and time steps are used for functional surface creation.
Independent scaling of the functional surface in the z-direction.
Each observation profile arc is assigned an x-origin value. This allows the plots of these entities to be aligned in a user specified manner.
Size function generation and editing tools allow for the creation of higher quality automatic meshes.