Design of a Digital Landscape
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Updatable, modifiable. Incorporate new data, new algorithms, corrections.
Object-oriented design, data abstraction.
Maintain data at finest spatial grain feasible. (Hardware constraints)
Ability to efficiently query, summarize, and output to GIS or other files.
Fortran numerical code.
Provide input to and incorporate output from diverse models.
Flexible data structures, data abstraction.
The design, in terms of data structures, computer languages, software, and user interfaces must anticipate how a digital landscape will and could be used.