InfoWorks™ ICM – The Most Powerful 1D/2D Integrated Catchment Modeling Solution

InfoWorks™ ICM (Integrated Catchment Modelling) is the first software platform on the market for complete and truly integrated 1D /2D hydrodynamic modelling of both rivers and sewer systems. For the first time, it is possible a thorough study of complex catchment areas with all elements of the drainage infrastructure and natural river systems and the interactions between them in qualitative and quantitative level in one product as a single work flow.

Inheriting from the internationally recognized and widely adopted InfoWorks CS (sewer systems, retired in 2015) and InfoWorks RS (river systems), InfoWorks™ ICM combines more than 30 years of international experience with the latest scientific achievements in the field of hydrology, computational hydraulics and the cutting-edge software technologies. In less than 5 years since its market premier in 2010 InfoWorks™ ICM became a standard platform for designers, consultants and utility operators across the globe, including United Kingdom, BENELUX Union, France, Italy, Spain, USA, Canada, Japan, China and many more.

InfoWorks™ ICM - designing, hydraulic modelling, real-time flood forecasting and risk management

InfoWorks™ ICM is a complex software platform with wide range of applications in solving contemporary engineering problems. Here is just a short list of possibilities:

InfoWorks™ ICM - 1D / 2D results in Geoplan and graphs — InfoWorks™ ICM - 1D & 2D results in Geoplan and graphs

InfoWorks™ ICM - 1D & 2D results in Geoplan and Long Profile

Professional building and utilizing of operational hydraulic models of both sewer and river systems;
Setting up real-time modelling, flood forecasting and risk management systems;
Designing of sewer systems and river corrections – from building of geospatial models to complex engineering and economical analyses;
Complete 2D modelling of surface water flows, including comprehensive water quality simulations;
Sewer and river systems master planning;
Effective designing and planning of sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS / BMPs);
Quantitative and qualitative analyses of formation and transport dynamics of solid and soluble contaminants from urbanized territories and of their impact on WWTPs and natural interceptors;

InfoWorks™ ICM provides a wide range of internationally approved theoretical and empirical computational models for detailed simulation of runoff volume formation and routing over complex catchments, while taking into account various hydrological processes such as interaction with ground waters, snow melting, evaporation, formation and transport dynamics of surface contaminants and many more. Along with its unparalleled 1D / 2D computational engine for simulating unpressurized flows in prismatic and non prismatic channels, InfoWorks™ ICM is a universal platform for building from simplified design models to very complex real-time operational models covering the entire water cycle over a given catchment.

Sengoku — Basara Battle Heroes English Patch

Locate your PPSSPP directory (usually in Documents/PPSSPP on Windows). Navigate to the PSP/TEXTURES folder. Create a folder named after the game's ID: ULJM05442 .

: Players select a team of two warriors to face off against another pair. Understanding the synergy between characters' skills is vital, which is where the English patch becomes invaluable for reading skill effects.

With a roster featuring fan favorites like Date Masamune, Sanada Yukimura, and Oda Nobunaga, the game was a hit in Japan. But without an English release, the intricate story modes and weapon customization systems were impenetrable to many Western fans.

There is currently for Sengoku Basara: Battle Heroes Sengoku Basara Battle Heroes English Patch

The patch is typically distributed as an .xdelta or .ppf file, which must be applied to an ISO image of the game. Once patched, the game can be played on:

On original hardware (PSP) or via emulation (PPSSPP), the patch runs incredibly stable. There are no glaring graphical glitches or text overflow issues that often plague fan translations. It is a clean install that feels stable from start to finish.

Dialogue sequences and character interactions during camp and pre-battle cutscenes. Locate your PPSSPP directory (usually in Documents/PPSSPP on

: Understand the stats, perks, and upgrades you equip to your warriors.

If you are playing on original hardware via Custom Firmware, you must permanently modify the ISO file. Open your patching tool (e.g., PPF-O-Matic ).

Most modern "patches" for Battle Heroes —and its successor, Chronicle Heroes —function as for the PPSSPP emulator. This method is safer and easier than modifying the original game file (ISO). : Players select a team of two warriors

The commanders on either side, who had leaned close in their respective pavilions, found the decision intolerable. Orders sputtered like dying lamps. The barons had wanted a spectacle that would justify their greed. Instead, two warriors had chosen a different spectacle: mercy as a statement. Some officers shouted for renewed combat; others hesitated, unsure whether men who chose this path could be controlled.

A brave warrior who uses two hot fire spears. Oda Nobunaga: A dark king who uses a sword and a shotgun. Story Mode

If you are looking for a more complete English experience within the series, consider these alternatives: Sengoku Basara: Chronicle Heroes

They moved again; each strike carried something beyond metal. With every exchanged blow, history was being argued: how these lands should be ruled, what strength truly meant, whether the ghosts of the past could be silenced by blood or by mercy. The soldiers below, who had watched generals bargain with their lives like tokens, felt something unfamiliar: the sense that their fate had found a conscience.

Follow short, individual paths for characters like Date Masamune and Sanada Yukimura. While dialogue scenes remain mostly in Japanese text, mission objectives are easy to understand with the patch.

InfoWorks™ ICM - team work and complete data integration

ICM CorporateSetup EN — Integration in corporate environments

InfoWorks™ ICM has been built upon the multi-user software platform of InfoAsset™ Manager, thus providing unmatched functionality for an unlimited number of users to work simultaneously in one shared geospatial database, onto one single model. A complete built-in tool set allows integration with external corporate RDBMS and file systems, such as GIS, SCADA, systems for meteorological measurements and forecasts (including raster radar imagery), ERP, CRM, etc. The software can import / export data from / to many standard formats - ESRI SHP, ESRI GeoDatabase, MapInfo TAB, MS Access, MS SQL Server, ORACLE Database and more.For complete data exchange automation, an ICMExchange Server license is required, which will also bring ability to schedule and run simulations automatically.

InfoWorks™ ICM brings out-of-the-box all tools required for building and managing the modelling databases – from database structure management to user access control. In addition to the standard ICM Master Database, the software platform can flawlessly use MS SQL Server and ORACLE Database as its default data store. The built-in functionality is truly easy to use so even users with standard computer skills can set up complex multi-user modelling environments without the need of IT professional support.

InfoWorks™ ICM - unparalleled simulation engine - speed, accuracy, scalability

The InfoWorks™ ICM simulation engine is a result of more than 30 years of scientific research in the UK, USA, and Western Europe. It inherits from and dramatically enhances the capabilities of the internationally recognized Mainframe WASSP - Wallingford Storm Sewer Package (1982), WALLRUS (1989), SPIDA (1992), HydroWorks PM (1994), InfoWorks CS (1998), InfoWorks CS 2D (2007).

InfoWorks™ ICM is the first software platform on the market truly able to simulate simultaneously in real-time hydrology, 1D/2D hydraulics and water quality as one single and completely integrated process. Incorporating the latest achievements in informatics and in software technologies, the simulation engine utilizes the full power of the contemporary multi-core CPUs (Intel Xeon family for example). But also (again for the first time on the market) it can use the high-end GPUs (nVIDIA TESLA, nVIDIA QUADRO, etc.), thus making possible to reduce the simulation times by an order of magnitude – from hours to minutes.

Most of the contemporary 1D/2D modelling software products are still relying on 1D/2D coupling, which requires import /export of hydrology,1D/2D hydraulics and water quality results from one engine to another often involving user interaction. Unsurprisingly the results of several independent benchmarking studies (for example UK’s Environment Agency - „Benchmarking the latest generation of 2D hydraulic flood modelling packages”) show that InfoWorks™ ICM is almost twice as fast as its closest competitors with similar or even much higher accuracy of the results.

ICM SimEngineScallability EN — Simulation engine scalability

One of the major advantages of InfoWorks™ ICM’s simulation engine is its horizontal scalability in terms of the available hardware resources within organizations. In accordance with the type and the number of seats in their license, the users can easily create a simulation pool of PCs, which can be used to carry out multiple remote simulations simultaneously. Once set up the built-in ICM Coordinator and ICM Simulation Agent take care automatically to distribute / accept the simulation tasks on the available workstations and their CPU / GPU cores and then to bring the results back to the users or store these on a central server.

Short video demonstrations of the ICM's simulation engine scalability: Creating a simulation pool and Running multiple simulations in a workgroup.

InfoWorks™ ICM - flexible licensing options in accordance to your needs

InfoWorks™ ICM is offered via an annual subscription (12 months) in the following versions:

InfoWorks™ ICM Sewer – license with standard functionality – 1D modeling of sewer systems and limited (up to 1000 elements) 2D flood modeling;
InfoWorks™ ICM Flood – license with standard functionality – 2D flood modeling and limited (up to 1000 nodes) 1D/2D integration of sewer and river systems;
InfoWorks™ ICM Ultimate – license with extended functionality – 1D/2D modeling of sewer and river systems, multi-user databases, and additional technologies:

Workgroup Data Server and Workgroup Master Database – simultaneous work of multiple users in a central database within your own IT infrastructure – no limitations, no additional conditions;

ICM TSDB (Time Series Database) – a database for storing and processing scalar and raster (spatially varying) time series from various sources – SCADA, weather stations, weather radars, etc., and also for direct input of hydrological and operational data – historical, statistical, and forecasted (rainfall, temperatures, etc.) in simulations;

ICM RiskMaster – specialized computation engine for comprehensive assessment of flood impacts on infrastructure according to internationally recognized standards. Calculations are based on hydraulic and hydrological data and simulation results, economic and regulatory parameters, providing an unambiguous evaluation for any number of affected infrastructure units;

IExchange – RUBY software development kit (SDK) for full automation of data exchange with external information systems, scheduled automated execution of complex tasks within the platform environment, including automatic creation and execution of simulation scenarios;

ICM PDM (Probability Distributed Model) – a special module for the simulation engine, intended for running long-term simulations with sequences of rainfall events, continuously simulating hydrological surface parameters and their influence on the formation and transformation of surface runoff. PDM is primarily used in modeling, forecasting, and real-time management systems.

InfoWorks™ ICM Viewer – a limited version of the software platform provided completely free with every subscription option. This version does not allow editing of models or parts of the database structures but provides all tools for analyzing models and simulation results.

AUTODESK Cloud – every subscription option grants access to AUTODESK’s cloud services for creating, managing, and storing databases, as well as running simulations in a cloud environment. Additional conditions apply.

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