HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS		QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year:  Vol:  Page:

This Article Figures Only Full Text Free Full Text (PDF) Free Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in ISI Web of Science Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via ISI Web of Science (1) Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Bauerle, W. L. Articles by Anantharamu, S. Search for Related Content PubMed Articles by Bauerle, W. L. Articles by Anantharamu, S. Agricola Articles by Bauerle, W. L. Articles by Anantharamu, S. Related Collections Evapotranspiration Models Plant Analysis

Computers in Agriculture

Adaptation of the Biological Simulation Model MAESTRA for Use in a Generic User Interface

^a Dep. of Hortic
^d Dep. of Electrical and Computer Eng., Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC 29634
^b USDA-ARS, Crops Syst. and Global Change Lab., Beltsville, MD 20705
^c USDA-ARS, Environ. Microbial Safety Lab., Beltsville, MD 20705

^* Corresponding author (bauerle{at}clemson.edu)

Received for publication April 12, 2005. Application of process-based models beyond the research community has been limited, in part because they do not operate in an intuitive graphical user-friendly environment. This article describes the procedure of adapting a spatially explicit biological-process model, MAESTRA (Multi-Array Evaporation Stand Tree Radiation A), to run in a standard graphical user interface (GUI). The methods used to adapt the MAESTRA model are generally applicable to other individual tree process-based models and, therefore, should simplify other coupling attempts. The three primary changes to MAESTRA were the placement of the MAESTRA code inside a Microsoft Windows API (application programming interface) function called WINMAIN, rearrangement of the input file structure to fit the hierarchical file structure used by the Graphical User Interface for Crop Simulations (GUICS), and the addition of iteration counters to read array-based data read for each array within the MAESTRA input files. The procedure of adapting MAESTRA's input structure and interface design should allow other forest stand process-based models to work within GUICS.

Abbreviations: API, application programming interface • GUI, graphical user interface • GUICS, Graphical User Interface for Crop Simulations

This article has been cited by other articles:

				W. L. Bauerle, J. D. Bowden, and G. G. Wang The influence of temperature on within-canopy acclimation and variation in leaf photosynthesis: spatial acclimation to microclimate gradients among climatically divergent Acer rubrum L. genotypes J. Exp. Bot., September 4, 2007; (2007) erm177v1. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]