On April 24th, the DRAIN project partners held a seminar in Seville to discuss the implementation of urban drainage plugins in QGIS. The seminar was an opportunity for the partners to share their expertise and explore different strategies for integrating these plugins into QGIS.
DRAIN is a collaborative project between two civil engineering companies, ABM and CIVILE, the research institute Flumen at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and the GEAMA research group at the University of A Coruña. The project aims to develop an open-source and free modeling tool for the analysis of all urban drainage processes, integrated into a GIS environment. The objective is to evaluate the hydraulic behavior and the effects of diffuse pollution on the surface, the drainage network, and the receiving environment. In addition, specific modules will be added to the tool for implementing Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems and analyzing actions related to climate change adaptation.
The seminar was a productive exchange of ideas, and the partners were able to discuss the challenges and opportunities of implementing urban drainage plugins in QGIS. This is an important step towards making the DRAIN tool more accessible and user-friendly, and towards achieving the project’s goal of providing a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, and planners working on urban drainage issues.
DRAIN. Digital RAIN, un modelo integral de drenaje urbano/DRAIN Digital RAIN, an integrated urban drainage model. Ref [CPP2021-008756]. Componente 17, Inversión 3, BDNS: 602450, financiado por MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 y por la Unión Europea-NextGenerationEU/PRTR.