Smile – Say “DSSAT”
Once again, as the new version of DSSAT is getting really-close to the public release, the core DSSAT developers gathered together at IFPRI HQ in Washington, DC, for a week-long Development Sprint workshop, second such event in 2014.
Participants are:
- Upendra Singh (IFDC)
- Jim Jones (University of Florida)
- Cheryl Porter (University of Florida)
- Jeff White (USDA-ARS, Maricopa)
- Bruce Kimball (USDA-ARS, Maricopa)
- Kelly Thorp (USDA-ARS, Maricopa)
- Kendall DeJonge (USDA-ARS, Ft. Collins)
- Gerrit Hoogenboom (Washington State University)
- Vakhtang Shelia (Washington State University)
- Richard Ogoshi (University of Hawaii)
- Jon Lizaso (University Polytechnic, Madrid, Spain)
- Phil Alderman (CIMMYT)
- Jawoo Koo (IFPRI)
- Myriam Adam (CIRAD/ICRISAT)
- Mohamed Youssef (North Carolina State University)
- Lamyaa Negm (North Carolina State University)
- Amor Ines (Columbia University)
- Eunjin Han (Columbia University)
- David Kelly (University of Chicago)
- Patricia Moreno (CIAT)
- Honda Kiyoshi (Chubu Institute for Advanced Studies)
- Rassarin Chinnachodteeranum (Chubu Institute for Advanced Studies)
Specific agenda items addressed in the workshop includes:
- Specific crops
- Taro
- ASI maize
- Sorghum model
- CROPGRO-Wheat — vernalization, head vs. pods
- Cassava
- Forage model within DSSAT shell (5 species)
- Handling of new species, crops
- Plant processes
- Pest and disease coupling
- Winter crops under snow cover and air temperature
- Soil, Plant, Atmosphere
- FAO-56 ET
- Potassium
- Soil Temperature — linkage with energy balance
- Energy balance
- Root growth
- Tillage
- 2D Water and N balance model (roots too)
- DRAINMOD management modules
- Weather data — filling missing
- Automation irrigation options: limited water, forecasts, growth stage
- Linking seasonal climate models
- General CSM functionality (I/O, etc.)
- Flexible model control/input formats
- Flexible model output formats
- Improved data structures for inputs/outputs
- Compliance with ICASA standards
- Incorporating totally new models
- Parameter Estimation (with time-series data) — Metropolis-Hastings
- Model evaluation: sensitivity, initialization, cross validation (test suites)
- Next Generation object-oriented CSM
- General modeling-related
- Data standards, data interchange
- ICASA Data Exchange v2.0
- DSSAT per se
- DSSAT 4.6 release
- Incorporating new tools in DSSAT shell
- DSSAT as a web service, cloud services
- Plan for systematic releases of DSSAT
- Software management
- Open source strategy
- Issue Tracking System (Jira)
- Model documentation
- Managing tools or other software via Github
